April 26, 2012: Afternoon
- Hague finds Charles Taylor guilty of aiding Sierra Leone war crimes.
- Forty thousand Norwegians gather to sing children's song despised by Norwegian killer.
- Then-and-now photo feature by the LA Weekly looks at the LA riots 20 years later.
- Clean Air Act credited for 10-year low in air pollution.
- When religion is politics and the median age is 27, changes are coming for sex-obsessed Iran.
- Pictures from a crane of emergencies in the Netherlands.
- In case you were wondering what it's like to have your home destroyed by a storm.
- Ode to the Mercator, the first map to help people get where they wanted to go.
- Tripe from XOJane refuted.
- Werner Herzog reads from Cormac McCarthy, whom he adores.
- China gets a chance to help produce Avatar sequels.
- Six filmmaking tips, which apply to other practices, from David Fincher.
- James Murphy, formerly of LCD Soundsystem, lists 15 songs that saved his life.
- Few, if any, ever believed that rebellion was a distressed leather jacket from J. Crew.
- On the criminalization of bad mothers.
- Unrelated: How to throw a shrimp boil.