Headlines from September 18, 2008

Russia expert Rice says U.S. and Europe should get tough, that "an acute sense of shame" in the '90s doesn't allow for "bullying behavior."
As violence ebbs, Iraq considers tourist possibilities--rides on Saddam's presidential train, bird watching.
Canada now is officially more free than the U.S.
Dude can descend like a lunatic. What it's like to ride bikes with John Kerry.
McCain mistakes the prime minister of Spain for a Latin American radical (was it a senior moment?).
Palin "got a passport for the first time in [her] life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything." Hagel on Palin's foreign policy experience.
The story behind Palin's email hack.
Gawker guide to the internet's more awful places.
Print-on-demand ATM installed in Melbourne bookstore.
Jokes for typographers.
Linguistic analysis of a favorite D.F.W. trope.
How to know a model when you see one; day in the life of a male model.
"I always thought 'retard,' which means slows and pretty in music, was actually a kind of nice way to express the condition." Why we use the word, and why we shouldn't.
Terrific review, with samples, of post-Katrina cinema pouring out of New Orleans.
On Monday, McCain said our economic fundamentals were strong; on Tuesday, he opposed the AIG bailout; on Wednesday he supported it.
New poll shows McCain's bounce may be flattening.
After McCain's attack on on Wall St. greed, it's revealed 83 lobbyists working on his campaign have worked there.
A movement that once fought for limited government has presided over the greatest growth of government in our history. Former National Review publisher throws his hat in for Obama.
Without invoking Palin, medical activists demand to see McCain's full health records.
Palin's personal email hacked; what was found and what it all means.
Think of science as the oil that greases the engine of modern government. The new administration should take geeks more seriously.
Nintendo's per-employee profit is $1.6 million--higher than Goldman Sachs or Google.
On the new philosophical, ethical complexities of climate change--economics alone can't make the decision.
"It was like, bingo, we've got whales." Underwater recordings over the summer reveal whales passing near New York Harbor.
I've seen grown men cry when they see their first whale. Nothing prepares you for the sight of a 50-foot, 50-ton humpback whale leaping out of the water.
TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin's latest Digital Ramble: lists.
Brian Eno soundtracks Spore with an ever-mutating song.