Headlines from October 20, 2011
- Obit for Gadhafi includes notes on his entourage: 400 guards; a mobile hospital; $6 million in cash.
- Burial for Gadhafi delayed for investigation into still-mysterious circumstances of his death.
- Occupy Wall Street’s populism now twice as popular as the Tea Party.
- Libertarian conclusions can be reached without regard to liberty, or, how not to argue for limited government and lower taxes.
- Accessible overview of Italy’s centuries-long debt crisis.
- Exotic pets rampaging in Ohio compared to Roman Emperor Commodus’s gladitorial games.
- In the world of exotic-pet keeping, the dangerous animals are human. #opinions
- People are already walking around doing what their iPhones tell them. And we’re generally quite happy with that domination. Science historian on what’s next.
- Responding to “climategate,” further evidence released that the world is warming fast.
- Obituary for the movie camera.
- Hippocratic oath for photographers as written by M.F. Agha for U.S. Camera in 1937.
- Photographs of men who look like but are not David Foster Wallace.
- Photographs of women looking dissatisfied in bed.
- Ben Katchor on examples from the antique medium of “picture stories.”
- Data on symphony audiences’ pleasure zones: parking and exchangeable tickets.
- I think somebody slipped something in my drink, like a drug that’ll make you get, like, a bunch of tattoos. Lil Wayne on tattoos, his father, condo-shopping.
- Former Libyan leader Gadhafi killed, says Libyan Prime Minister Jibril.
- Yankee fans take pride believing one of their own found Gadhafi in his hole.
- “Super-entity” of 147 companies, mainly banks, hold disproportionate power over the global economy. #money
- Jon Bon Jovi opens “pay what you can” restaurant in New Jersey.
- When wealth is too much concentrated in the hands of people who don’t need to spend it, it stops circulating.
- Brief reflection on why sandwiches and meals prepared by someone else taste better.
- People turn blue—actually turn blue—due to methemoglobinemia and argyria.
- Céline Dion churns through 500,000 gallons of water a month. TMN’s Anthony Doerr on the nation’s dropping groundwater supplies.
- Robert Birnbaum in conversation with director/writer John Sayles.
- I’ll die before I go all the way pop. Patsy Cline quotes about writing, sort of.
- Evangelical pastor who got the Judgment Day wrong predicts the Apocalypse for tomorrow.
- Product catalog for Rapture-ers.
- NIeman Marcus Christmas book includes a $125,000 custom-built library.
- Name changes in Britain 10 times more popular than they were a decade ago.
- Single scenes from Criterion Collection films culled, discussed, and shown.
- Sick days, then and now. #comic