Headlines from November 16, 2012
- Avoiding bankruptcy and defaulting twice in 2012, the U.S. Postal Service reports a $16 billion annual loss.
- Twinkies maker Hostess files motion to liquidate assets and sell off its brands.
- Some other second-tier industrial bakery will…continue producing the Ding-Dong, and the Wonder Bread, and other crap nobody wants.
- Vintage psychedelic Hostess commercials. #video
- Think-piecing our way through the Guy Fieri-New York Times feud: Elitism isn’t the enemy, but bad junk is.
- Paul Ford: Websites, like presidential campaigns, succeed when they scale—can Occupy do the same? #ows
- The latest in career advancement: Become a director for a trade association—or five.
- BP CEO thankful $40 billion fine “only amounts to 1 percent of the company’s gross revenue for 2011.”
- China’s new leaders: personable, forgiving, and mysterious.
- Ai Weiwei grants rare non-exclusive interview. Madman Daily is China’s Onion.
- Online snark in the form of micro-blogs pose a new challenge to China’s propaganda machine.
- Get ready to spend Thanksgiving servicing your relatives’ laptops: “Home for the Holiday Tech Support.” #tmn
- Kurzweil’s new book: full of holes—big, dubious, mind-blowing holes. #books
- Obit for paleontologist-polymath Farah Jenkins, a real-life Indiana Jones who discovered much in a well-traversed world.
- Egypt’s leaders vow to support Gaza against Israeli attacks.
- “Petraeus is only the beginning,” says Obama, promising second term full of Homeland-like twists. #video
- James Carter IV digs up Lee Atwater’s strategy for winning racist votes without sounding racist.
- Money may not determine the winner in a presidential election, but it does say who gets to run.
- As MSNBC demonstrates, prepare to see Condi’s head when newspeople discuss Susan Rice.
- Military spouses know about infidelity, and they also know we’re still at war in Afghanistan.
- Two profiles of De Niro, now and 19 years ago, about fatherhood and celebrity.
- Rihanna is on a plane with fans and journalists, and it looks like this.
- If light-rail systems remain sparsely used, cars remain better for the environment.
- You have a secret that can ruin your life called an online password, and we need to quit using them. #opinions
- Toronto book-vending machine offers random book for two bucks.
- Oh fuck, we’re out of twine, and we have no place to dispense said twine. “The Hater’s Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog.”
- In time for the holidays: How to properly and effectively craft a thank-you note.
- How Sriracha sauce is made. #video