Headlines from December 6, 2012
- To China, the United States appears much as Great Britain did to Americans two centuries ago.
- Sadly for me, this is a bunch of malarkey. Obama’s data director assures Americans he’s not Big Brother.
- AOL’s history told through New York Times crossword clues.
- Today in odd news: Apparently, Kim Jong-Il had a Palestinian foster daughter.
- Brubeck and his quartet burning through some of their hottest numbers. #video
- Dave Brubeck mainstreamed jazz while earning the respect of fellow musicians, including the uncompromising Miles Davis.
- For new novels alone, it felt like it was a storm of almost impossible dimensions. TMN’s Alexander Chee’s year in reading. #books
- Saying “no” to a log cabin in the woods, I decided, was tantamount to saying “no” to life itself. #tmn
- The world’s greatest hoodie was created using Apple know-how and is made—profitably—in the USA.
- The 1975 Christmas episode of the Bob Newhart Show hits the standard holiday notes, but reveals what made the series so special. via #video
- The new workplace reality shows focus on rewarding the hard-working, rather than firing the unworthy. #tv
- Related: When the first season of The Apprentice moved into a Brooklyn apartment, the neighbors were privy to the unreality. #tmn
- Bedbugs find a new place to dwell: library books.
- Best photographs from 2012 as chosen by Alan Taylor’s “In Focus” (part 1 of 3).
- Washington state begins issuing same-sex marriage licenses today.
- Lessons from Europe on how to create a healthy deficit reduction program.
- Battles in Cairo when Morsi supporters attack protesters camped outside the presidential palace.
- Brazilian gang in prison conducts 10-hour conference call to discuss drug business.
- Designers dream up the “Human Rights Skyscraper” for Beijing.
- Round-up of more casualties from the past decade’s financial crisis: dead jets.
- Unsolicited, unofficial redesigned NFL logos.
- “Everything you despise about the U.S. foreign policy community in a single story.”
- Man who first imagined ice ages is buried under a Swiss rock that was schlepped to Massachusetts.
- When creating a digital family tree, accuracy will yield to personal narratives about the unknown.
- Expert clinical diagnosticians are rare; for typical physicians, computer programs can overcome “anchoring bias” and save lives.
- San Diego restaurant plays its worst Yelp reviews aloud in the bathroom.
- RIP Dave Brubeck, dead of heart failure a day before his 92nd birthday.
- Investigation into real woman behind Nine and a Half Weeks—“a potent antidote to what passes for erotica today.”
- Now’s your chance to become a judge in the 2013 Tournament of Books. #tmn
- Thursday poem: “Lines for Winter” by Mark Strand.
- Bourbon alternatives when “you have zero chance of scoring that bottle of Pappy Van Winkle for your dad this Christmas.”