11 April 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Ivory Coast's Gbagbo captured, ending standoff and siege.
- Jordanian self-immolates outside prime minister's office in Amman.
- Five killed in shooting spree in Dutch shopping mall, 12 in similar incident at Brazilian public school.
- Man who shot John Wilkes Booth went on to live in constant fear of assassins.
- U.S. ranks twelfth in per-capita Twitter use; Brazil flies in at number one.
- Research shows including LOL in the dictionary enriches language; kids who use slang are more articulate.
- Defense of epigraphs: good ones "glow like a mood ring on a humid hand."
- French minister says his favorite novel is clothing shop Zadig et Voltaire.
- Long read: Chinese package tour sees five European countries in 10 days, eating Chinese along the way.
- Charcuteroulette, putting you in touch with random meat products from around the world.
- Downloadable versions of this year's National Magazine Award finalists.
- Lovely Zadie Smith article on watching Christian Marclay's "The Clock," a 24-hour film that tells time from film cuttings.
- Photos of scuttlings to create artificial reefs.
- Tour de Pakistan mostly flat for over 1,000 miles; stragglers draft highway traffic.
- Reportage and climbing videos of the world's tallest trees, who cannot flee paparazzi.
- Profile: On the making of Radiolab; recent episode, "The Soul Patch," with Oliver Sacks and Chuck Close.
- Kevin Smith, who never intended to be a filmmaker, soon to leave filmmaking to pursue original dream of hanging out and talking.
- Audio: TMN's Matthew Baldwin on autism in entertainment (see source).
