11 July 2011: Morning
- Writer of Syrian revolution's theme song believed to be killed.
- Niemann unveils world map, with slight New York bias, of useless stereotypes.
- Google wins image points in Japan for post-quake tools.
- Steve Wynn wins points for spending $13 million on vases and restoring them to China (in his new hotel).
- Audio: Birth of South Sudan--challenges of nation building.
- Lovely interactive catalog of the Space Shuttle's program's missions.
- Every astronaut ever listed by NASA.
- Profile of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
- Chronicle of two young alpinists climbing in Canada.
- Buffett: Anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of congress should be ineligible for reelection.
- Why is Pittsburgh covered in numbered protractors? Not a rhetorical question.
- Le Carré reminisces about the MI6 he knew.
- Good video analysis of America's World Cup thriller yesterday over Brazil.
- Video: Hula hoop demonstrates excellent girl-ing.
- Greenwich Village store bans drunken customers from petting or purchasing puppies.
- Report from training camp for Indian call center: Seinfeld clips, accent faking, geography studies.
- Aesthetic study of chewing gum litter, from splotchy streets to Ben Wilson's wondrous art.
- Morgan Entrekin on wedding gifts.
- Skate videos we watched as teenagers never looked so beautiful as "Kilian Martin: A Skate Escalation."