30 April 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 30 Apr 2008 The idea of the Olympic torch mounting Everest is grand, but for now not even Jackie Chan knows where it is. Report on forward and backward steps for journalists in Asia. Today's headline: "Free Tibet" flags made in China. TMN writers and readers notate exactly what they're forbidding themselves right now. Llew Hinkes on what you need to open your mind to in today's Mp3 Digest. L.A. bookstores currently besieged by con men impersonating authors (including ToB judge Mark Sarvas) in need of money (Sarvas responds). Op: The Wright side of the brain says blacks learn from subjects, not objects; rap lyrics, not books. The literature the Clinton campaign is passing around cannot be explained away or rationalized. Fish on the "much ado" over Obama and Ayers. Michael Houellebecq's "old slut of a mother" to respond with her own book. Robert Ebert's blog; Improv Everywhere gets the Law & Order: SVU treatment, starring Robin Williams. Blogger Dooce has new book out with essays by TMN's Matthew Baldwin, Kevin Guilfoile, Maggie Mason. Time-lapse video of a day at Fenway Park. Exactly how the new Batman trailer is like the old one: a video comparison. Video: The remarkable Clustarack Rube Goldberg machine (and how it was made).
