Headlines from October 20, 2011

Former Libyan leader Gadhafi killed, says Libyan Prime Minister Jibril.
Yankee fans take pride believing one of their own found Gadhafi in his hole.
“Super-entity” of 147 companies, mainly banks, hold disproportionate power over the global economy. #money
Jon Bon Jovi opens “pay what you can” restaurant in New Jersey.
When wealth is too much concentrated in the hands of people who don’t need to spend it, it stops circulating.
Brief reflection on why sandwiches and meals prepared by someone else taste better.
People turn blue—actually turn blue—due to methemoglobinemia and argyria.
Céline Dion churns through 500,000 gallons of water a month. TMN’s Anthony Doerr on the nation’s dropping groundwater supplies.
Robert Birnbaum in conversation with director/writer John Sayles.
I’ll die before I go all the way pop. Patsy Cline quotes about writing, sort of.
Evangelical pastor who got the Judgment Day wrong predicts the Apocalypse for tomorrow.
Product catalog for Rapture-ers.
NIeman Marcus Christmas book includes a $125,000 custom-built library.
Name changes in Britain 10 times more popular than they were a decade ago.
Single scenes from Criterion Collection films culled, discussed, and shown.
Sick days, then and now. #comic
Conflicting reports from Libyan commanders say Gadhafi’s been captured and/or injured, and/or killed.
Some Pakistani military officers find this year’s Army book club choice—Woodward’s Obama’s Wars—disturbing.
Rushdie talks about religion, Arab Spring, “addictive garbage” Game of Thrones.
Border Patrol and Texas mayors uninterested in GOP nominees’ fencing plans.
The face of gerontocracy: five related powerful men, with only one who can walk unaided. #photography
Federal employees’ wages, plus a concentration of lawyers, lift Washington DC over San Jose as America’s wealthiest hub.
Two hundred years late, lawyers claim Declaration of Independence was illegal.
Israel’s willingness to cut a deal with Hamas should be extended to dealing with the economy. #opinions
Jonah Lehrer on the studies that show how we ruin each other’s memories.
Study of “neuromagic” explores psychology of how magic tricks work.
Jones became a sort of magic psychoanalyst to the community. MIT anthropologist infiltrates magicians’ world in Paris.
Norm Macdonald explains how to make $450,000 disappear while gambling. #audio
James Gaddy’s “Google Image Search Project,” a slideshow of results after searching for “Paper, Large Only.” #art
Video and explainer show what Google’s self-driving car sees on the road.
In light of the National Book Awards’ title flub, TMN’s Tournament of Books held up as what awards should emulate.