3 December 2008: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Putin learns how international markets work, deems them "ugly" and "unfair."
Original "dude" Jeff Dowd explains why he likes White Russians.
Russia and U.S. both refuse to sign international ban on civilian-maiming cluster-bombs.
Instapaper for the commute: Crime, punishment, and politics in the United States.
Map of Iceland's meltdown; P.J. O'Rourke visits Disney's future; Fallows interviews Chinese mega-manager.
List of highest-paid world leaders.
Top 60 most popular Japanese words/phrases of 2008, including "it's all good."
Authors pick their favorite obscure books, and we highly applaud Bloom picking Little, Big.
Visions of Dehli's book market day.
Teacher compensates for budget cuts with ads in exams; semester final is sold out.
It's like an endless, chaotic film that can completely overpower me. And there's no stop button. Perfect memory is perfectly agonizing.
Christoph Niemann's ode to coffee, drawn in coffee on napkins.
Digested (soused, rather) read of the Amis drinking book.
Video: Mirage of levitating water.
Update on yesterday's favorite simple weather site: Umbrella Today offers a different take.
Video: Remarkable
interview with Odetta, folk-singer and civil rights icon, who died yesterday at 78 (more here).
