Headlines from November 25, 2008

Bush grants 14 pardons, commutes two sentences--no word on Milken or John Walker Lindh, though more reprieves are expected.
Zakaria: In effect, we're asking China to finance simultaneously the two largest fiscal expansions in human history--theirs and ours.
Melody Barnes will head the Domestic Policy Council in Obama's White House, wrote this progressive inauguration speech in 2007.
Pontius Pilate, Trainspotting indicate cleanliness is closer to ethical acceptance than godliness.
When Obama moves to Washington, the routine and ritual he's enjoyed in Chicago will be gone.
After 35 years of taking the train to D.C., Joe Biden is moving there.
A map of U.S. cities and how soon you could get there--if we had high-speed trains.
Reporting from the Harley-Davidson owners' group, Middle East branch.
Video: 100 films spoiled in under five minutes.
Included in this year's TMN Annual: Matthew Baldwin on spoilers and those who hate them.
Watch him code his latest sketch, a game about regret, and what do you see? Meet the programmer who turns life into games.
As an Obama presidency looms, bitter humorists cling to their irony.
Pre-election thought: How we'd see the GOP, if only we had special sunglasses like in John Carpenter's They Live.
"She's wonderful, but the only difference was she looks better in stilettos than I do." Huckabee, post-election.
Protestors shut down Bangkok airport with gunfire as Thai prime minister returns from summit.
Disloyalty, or the whiff of it, set off a particular quivering. Ode to Bush's nostrils.
Hitchens: The last thing we need is a Clinton in charge of foreign policy.
Charities on tenterhooks while billionaires, banks, and foundations pull back on commitments.
Wartime orders from Europe, and not the New Deal, did the most to help the economy climb out of the Great Depression.
Instapaper for the commute: The myth of urban loneliness.
Twelve brief theses on Netflix and recommender systems.
Analysis of Shaq's first week on Twitter.
Astronomers hopped up about signals perhaps from "fireballs created by dark matter particles colliding and annihilating one another in space."

Short on space, Spanish town builds solar panels on gravesites.