Headlines from February 3, 2012

Planned Parenthood receives nearly $700K in donations after losing Komen funding.
Today Komen announced it will continue funding Planned Parenthood.
Girl Scout cookies politicized after members boycott the organization for accepting a transgendered scout.
Stop saying our wars are over, Mr. President. They’re not. #opinions
Mitt Romney falls into the uncanny valley of presidential candidates—just creepily perfect enough to be unsettling.
Record label seeks choral singer who can hit a note so low it’s thought never to have been sung before.
Stadiums composed of meat.
Whiteboard remakes of famous paintings.
UK authorities’ seizures of counterfeit alcohol rise fivefold in two years.
Self-proclaimed “Jewish Indiana Jones” admits he never found, restored Torah scrolls in Europe and Israel.
Researchers say purported jellyfish invasion unlikely.
Mauritius’ commitment to open trade and the rule of law…do correlate well with growth. The little economy that could.
Below are 20 common grammar mistakes I see…in HR manuals, blogs, magazines, newspapers, trade journals, and even best selling novels.
Protesters fight with security forces for a second day in Cairo over soccer deaths and slow reforms.
Chart: Facebook is currently bigger than the U.S., smaller than India.
Many economists believe the worst is yet to come; only fringe predictors say corporations will begin spending again soon.
First UK envoy appointed to Somalia in 20 years calls it the world’s most failed state.
Five things you can’t do on Twitter in the U.S.
Deadspin editor tries on Brian Cashman’s pajamas to prove that the Yankees general manager has a mistress.
Same alleged mistress arrested for allegedly stalking Cashman.
Man arrested on suspicion of stealing ice from Chilean glacier.
Why big companies throw so much money at consultants when they know most consultants are recent college grads: signaling and status.
Black market discovered in Pennsylvania for porcupine meat to be eaten in Vietnam. via
America can’t manufacture iPhones because it can’t replicate China’s ability to scale and draconian working conditions.
Gagosian Gallery’s ambitious exhibition stands as convincing, if admittedly surprising evidence that Damien Hirst is indeed an extraordinary colorist.
Related: Fuck Your Noguchi Table.
Black people as defined by Republican presidential candidates, congressmen, and radio personalities.
One day late, we’d like to celebrate Groundhog Day with a tribute to Ned Ryerson. #video