Headlines from April 16, 2010

Various views of Europe's spreading ash plume blowing from Eyjafjallajökull volcano in southern Iceland.
Live aircraft traffic above Europe.
Holocaust commemoration increasingly occuring on Facebook despite social media being built to promote what is recent.
Obama orders hospital visitation rights for gays and lesbians.
Uninformed American summarizes watching the British Prime Ministerial debate.
Brown must constantly battle the risk of appearing to be a walking Wikipedia.
J.K. Rowling's single-mother manifesto on why she still refuses to vote Tory.
Scientists say calorie restriction influences the same handful of molecular pathways related to aging in all animals studied so far.
Roundup of passive-aggressive library signs.
Op: Sexually, millennials are a corrective generation: deeply conventional and traditional, and anti-boomer.
The Ballad of Cocky the Fox, a serial tale in 20 fits.
Lamentation for Polyrock, whose sound has yet to be stolen.
Notes on seven never-produced screenplays penned by famous intellectuals, including Nabokov, Churchill, and Huxley.
Nude performance artists at MoMA frequently touched by museumgoers.
Pictures of what (extremely similar) Atlantans carry around in their bags.
Fascinating job description (response to first question) in a Q&A with a physicist turning the South Pole into a dark-matter camera.
Collaboration fans: Layer Tennis goes global today.
Today's wacky Japanese fad to be marveled at by Americans: "history girls" (not quite "tentacle erotica").
Recipe for the vegan version of K.F.C.'s Double Down.