16 February 2011: Morning By The Morning News — 16 Feb 2011 How Egypt turned off the internet: The lines to the outside world carried in the services that made its domestic web work. CBS News reporter Lara Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted at Tahrir Square after Mubarak's resignation. In prison interview, Madoff says banks and hedge funds were "complicit" in his scheme. If I feel I should be working, I feel I should be writing. Author Geoff Dyer hits "reader's block." England's goal to get millions exercising before the Olympics "now resembles a wheezing jogger, bent over and winded." Op: In a restraint-starved world, foodies are society-sanctioned slaves to gluttony. Op: The fashion industry keeps tripping up on race because it's used to thinking of all physical markers as a look. Dakota responds to former co-op president's bias charges, reveals documents to suggest he didn't have the funds he claimed. When retailers ask for a ZIP Code during a credit card purchase, it's unnecessary and probably illegal. How logic and The Princess Bride can beat supercomputer Watson at pre-round Jeopardy. How marketers use psychology to pick movie titles. Bill Morris considers the "sweaty orgy of incest" that is the blurbing business, when deciding whether to blurb a friend's book. He had never been within smelling distance of clearly-labeled jet fuel. Tiny crime stories every weekday.
