8 November 2007: Afternoon

  • Online outpouring of protests in Pakistan; India's response to Pakistan's woes could fit neatly on a business card.
  • Leading Egyptian democracy activist suggests Mubarak has a death squad on the loose.
  • Answers, ideas in response to the question: Is the World Bank really necessary?
  • Another question: Is changeability a good trait in a critic when judgments are supposed to stand forever?
  • In today's profile of deceased Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp, Clay Risen might say yes and no.
  • Figures on new Radiohead album's sales reveal fewer than four out of 10 fans paid for their music, spending $6 on average.
  • Technology is bound to deliver a biofuel that will be competitive with fossil energy at something like current prices. A bull's approach to biofuels.
  • Boy's approach to find New York girl of dreams with website succeeds; mystery remains of what happens next.
  • Print for the commute home: The mysterious death of Lyndon LaRouche's publisher set an already flailing movement even further behind.
  • Dept. of Homeland Security employees apparently didn't receive memo to all white people: Quit wearing blackface to parties.
  • Winners of the Wired News saddest-cubicle contest.
  • Op: Why BookTV is so phenomonally awful it will keep you from reading.
  • Perhaps sad, perhaps not: Study finds toddlers will treat a giggling robot as a peer.
  • Studying how languages are learned by observing international adoptions.
  • A colorblind synesthete: the amazing story of someone who only saw certain colors in numbers.