4 August 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 04 Aug 2008 Obama leads McCain 2-to-1 among low-wage workers, but neither is convincing anybody that things will get better. "Flat-earthers" thrive in online communities, say photos from space are fakes, Earth is horizontally infinite. Discover the criminals in your community (search available here). Print for the commute: Why do nations exist, and why do particular nations exist in particular forms? Wall-E's plant apocalypse as seen from a botanist's point of view. Also highly printable, "Through God's Left Eye" in Cabinet. Satirical maps of the first World War. The exhaustive Times obit for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He emptied the vials of his wrath over Americans who liked rock music. Hitchens on Solzhenitsyn. Break up via answering machine, and other sly tricks now that you can skip straight to voicemail. How to get the Madonna-Demi-Olsen face for $30,000. Eighty-five works of art "improved" by modern gadgets. Replica of Beijing's Bird's Nest in Legos; great stop-motion video; trailer for Ghost Town. See also: Banana peels in London.
