8 May 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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Obama to withdraw funding for NYC nuclear detection efforts that never functioned properly--or knew what to do if a bomb was actually found.
U.S. officials say Afghan civilians died in airstrikes, disavow Taliban grenade stories.
Studies show governments who abuse human rights experience more domestic and transnational terrorism.
"The Solanis Convention applies to prisoners of war...Picard will be treated as a terrorist." Lessons learned from Star Trek's torture episode.
On Twitter, finding life's little victories; cheat codes for everyday life.
IKEA Walkthrough v2.3.1.
Thinking of all the things that would make a great Office script, TMN's Matthew Baldwin writes a script for The Office.
Also, Matthew Baldwin will be providing color commentary for today's Layer Tennis match.
"Swine flu parties": like "chicken pox parties," except with a little-understood, unpredictable pathogen.
"I went and looked up my symptoms about an hour ago," says Matthew Baldwin, a Seattle programmer. Hypochondria in the age of swine flu.
Friend to joyriding hypochondriacs everywhere, Dr. Google's most terrifying diagnoses are found in the text on the first page of results.
Regarding the email you received that equates the day we have a black president to the day pigs fly--and, look, "swine flu."
Awkward family photos; creepy realtor ads.
