2 April 2010: Weekend By The Morning News — 02 Apr 2010 Walk-through of how a German child-rape case trickled out three decades later. Küng: Celibacy has no Biblical support and should be abolished. Q&A on founding-father wisdom: Corporations should serve people, not become economic enterprises. Account of a man who created a corporation to repossess aircraft. Anyone who calls it Lemberg is a Nazi. Guide to tedious arguments in Eastern Europe. Brazil funds "school of gay arts"--wig preparation, lip syncing, drag queen performance. Sunday-morning read: From uncontrollable laughing to "the mental highway" for fake crying. Long analysis of political trends extracted from online-dating data. Hype around the Human Genome Project fostered a "social bubble," exciting investors but with too much short-term focus. Brief accounting of Serge Gainsbourg's appeal. Four Weddings And Seven Funerals. How movies would be different if they came from books by Nicholas Sparks. Hong Kong street artists' guide to graffiti, painting the town red. Panoramas are not photos, but photomontages. Brief guide to making Google street-view pictures. Inspired by nostalgia, man teaches treehouse construction. How a well-placed epigraph can capture the soul of a book. Audio: BBC version of Michael Erard's language pledge (original here). Flickr set of misspelled Tea Party signs claims new dialect: Teabonics. Collection of worst fantasy book covers; solar calendar music box.
