Headlines from November 30, 2011

As recently as 1996, a political candidate’s sexual affairs weren’t mainstream news fodder.
Print news has come full circle now that the “future of news” is print.
Richmond Tea Party prepares for an audit after complaining about paying for a park used freely by Occupiers.
Airlines do a better job at filing bankruptcy than delivering luggage. How American’s bankruptcy will affect travelers.
To overcome immigration law, startup plans to dock a ship off California stocked with high-tech workers.
If you loved the idea of an iPod-like thermostat, wait until you see Little Printer.
Interior porn: photographic tour through homes from each of New York City’s boroughs.
History of singing in invented languages (with clips).
For your esoteric listening tastes: radiOM, audio recordings from KPFA-FM radio in Berkeley and San Francisco’s Other Minds. #audio
Frere-Jones’s favorite albums of 2011.
Laugh tracks are making a comeback, even if no one can agree if they actually work.
Record for Most Olympic Games Attended Without Winning a Medal goes to Monaco.
Fuck yeah, keming: examples of poor kerning.
History of keming and its proliferation.
Biggest strike in 30 years disrupts UK; 58% of schools closed.
Obamas take their daughters book shopping; the girls buy the President Everyone Poops.
Professional lobbyist Gingrich splits hairs over being a lobbyist.
Morris Davis raised his voice. If we’re not careful, the next Morris Davis may not. Free speech rights of federal employees to be decided soon.
Audubon’s Birds of America now available as high-resolution scans.
CEOs may be irrationally overpaid, but it’s harder to tax top earners than you think. #opinions
It’s not clear that there is a fully functioning money market in Europe right now.
Demand in 2005 was so high for Lexus’s Christmas-car bows, they were stockpiled in a California warehouse.
Images of 1970s America in crisis. #photography
The face of CPR dummies is based on a famous Parisian death mask.
Sociology notes on the life of older gays in rural British communities. #audio
Aston Kutcher anonymously requests people to fetch him coffee.
Elvis Costello, who thinks the price of his new boxset “appears to be a satire,” recommends you buy Louis Armstrong instead.
Sounds that people born in the ‘80s and onward may not recognize.
Writers, be warned: Sell your literary friendships and you’ll know what it’s like to be fucked by Faulkner.