24 November 2010: Holiday By The Morning News — 24 Nov 2010 Speculations that North Korea's attack was ordered to burnish young Kim Jon Un's credentials. Op: Zadie Smith and Ross Douthat find Facebook dehumanizing because they're pretty social butterflies; everyone ain't like that. "Sarkozy calls journalists pedophiles"; Sarkozy denies calling journalists pedophiles. Inside airport-scanner factory where a software patch is being made to cover private parts. Op: Let's give thanks to the TSA for bringing us together for the holiday. Editor spends seven days in south Asia; conclusion: It's too late for Pakistan. Holiday reading: Year's best long reads; Death of a pig; Didion on Manhattan; scientific beliefs found false. TMN's Choire Sicha and Tom Scocca call Penn Station "a diorama of our recent history." Holiday audio: Frontiers of headache science; technology's inherent desire. Flashers use video of woman confronting flasher as a teachable moment (further details). Holiday video: Nicholas Cage loses his shit; Harvard cooking; Jimmy Fallon's pleasing eager-to-please impressions. Painter Sargy Mann uses his growing blindness to study neuroscience of sight. Holiday distractions: Ten Hollywood classics recast; communities from Romeo and Juliet and Oz interactively analyzed; hotel rooms shot from bed. Surrounded by 7.5 million people, stranded man spends five days in San Francisco Bay. Holiday dinner topics: Christmas commercialization can't overcome holiday spirit--mostly it's harmless; which president moved Thanksgiving? Photos of tossed-out Vegas call-girl cards. Holiday prep: Cheat sheet on controversial topics (Afghanistan, global warming) to help Thanksgiving arguments. Holiday drunk game: Einstein's fish quiz.
