25 November 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 25 Nov 2008 Protestors shut down Bangkok airport with gunfire as Thai prime minister returns from summit. Disloyalty, or the whiff of it, set off a particular quivering. Ode to Bush's nostrils. Hitchens: The last thing we need is a Clinton in charge of foreign policy. Charities on tenterhooks while billionaires, banks, and foundations pull back on commitments. Wartime orders from Europe, and not the New Deal, did the most to help the economy climb out of the Great Depression. Instapaper for the commute: The myth of urban loneliness. Twelve brief theses on Netflix and recommender systems. Analysis of Shaq's first week on Twitter. Astronomers hopped up about signals perhaps from "fireballs created by dark matter particles colliding and annihilating one another in space." Short on space, Spanish town builds solar panels on gravesites. The Big Picture's look at the international space station on its 10th birthday. Video: 60 seconds in the life of a mold-injection machine. Architect documents waking thoughts with watercolor paintings every morning for 30 years.
