8 September 2008: Morning

  • Both candidates must give more attention to nuclear policy--and need to be specific in answering four crucial questions.
  • Choosing a hockey mom for VP may help in Minnesota and Michigan, but soccer moms rule in Florida and Pennsylvania.
  • Conservatives, ordinary Americans will find a lot to like in anti-sprawl activism, though some see it as the death of the American dream.
  • Op: The difference between McCain speech and policy is in "sacrifice," which never applies to taxes.
  • Head of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges world to quit meat before quitting long-haul flights.
  • Heart ("Barracuda"), Van Halen ("Right Now"), others ask the G.O.P. to stop playing their songs.
  • If you include the Evangelicals, nearly every person at the R.N.C. headquarters has a voice whispering in his ear. A one-time security guard shares his experience of the G.O.P. night shift.
  • Dorothy Gambrell's map of where Craigslist Missed Connections occur, by region.
  • The unexpected success of Wikipedia and the internet demonstrates we don't understand openness--software and science need to catch up.
  • Today's long read: America's Little Blue Books: self-education for working-class America before internet, television.
  • A lesson in artificial scarcity: Warners pulls Estelle's album from iTunes, in an effort to boost physical sales--it's worked for others.
  • A map project depicts where album cover photographs were taken.
  • Him heap big man inside...me bring him coffee, him open doors for me. From 1964, Helen Gurley Brown teaches office workers to land an exec.