14 January 2011: Weekend

  • Berlusconi probed over dealings with teenage dancer he told police was Hosni Mubarak's relative.
  • Aerial photos of Port-au-Prince before and after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake.
  • Ours is a miraculous country. Chinese driver gets life in prison for skipping tolls for eight months.
  • Pictures from Brazil, where over 500 have been killed by flooding.
  • Chart: American states ranked economically if they were independent countries.
  • Study finds celebrity ads don't perform better than non-celebrity ads, in some cases perform much worse.
  • Modern typographers agree on one space after a sentence, yet millions continue to use two, a remnant of typewriters.
  • Chabon: Hip-hop is all I hear.
  • Most road trips involve the commodious back seat of a comfy Ambassador. Motorcycling through India leads to exotica writing.
  • Two-week contemporary poetry e-anthology announced.
  • Almost had a pregnant. Candidates for Reddit's comments of the year.
  • Power, privacy, and control--why texting is the preferred method of communication of athletes.
  • Author of 4-Hour Workweek now offers 4-Hour Body--no prestige to lose, and triple the semen volume.
  • Six-foot fake marijuana plant on sale for $325 from "world's best artificial marijuana" provider.
  • I don't think people who are into astrology look at the sky very much. Astronomer not hopeful to find new recruits among fallen astrologists.
  • During layover, physicist calculates math behind "Angry Birds Airline" that flings you from here to there.
  • Theories on why on earth Martha Stewart appears to be weighing a skull in her kitchen.