Headlines from November 28, 2011

Military folk keep their jobs secret to avoid hero-worship, being looked on as victims, or simply the questions.
Pakistan’s PM says “no more business as usual” with U.S. after NATO aircraft kill two dozen Pakistan troops.
Publishers quite aware that, for the first time in human history, Earth has a common language.
How Susan Kare personalized computing by designing famous Mac icons.
“It’s about a homosexual who falls in love with a nymphomaniac,” I said. Without another word they gave me the money. Ken Russell’s guide to movie-making.
Foreign athletes and entertainers avoid Britain to dodge its appearance tax.
Number of girls in rural Indian state’s school triples after female students get free bicycles.
Q&A with Björk on technology and guitars.
Toy uses Google to drive cross-country. #video
Earth’s ideal destination is Portfoliopolis—that always-pleasant land of architects’ dreams. #opinions
No international laws or agencies exist to police trials of new transgenic organisms. For the most part, scientists and biotech companies can do what they want.
Winners from Marine Photobank’s “Ocean in Focus” conservation photo contest.
Tom McCarthy begins new series for the Guardian showing writers’ computer desktops.
Alain de Botton’s six books that gave him wisdom, and why (some) Schopenhauer is “perfect to read after a break up.”
Physicist Richard Feynman on doubt. #video
Interactive history in photographs of recent uprisings in the Middle East.
Voters line up in Egypt, beginning an election timetable that lasts until March.
China has many female entrepreneurs and high-flying managers, though male attitudes about family haven’t changed.
Beijing graffiti advertises jobs.
Drought in the South and roaring Chinese appetites find Georgia crawling with pecan thieves.
Christoph Niemann reinterprets squash as midcentury design classics.
Painter behind Coca-Cola’s Santa Claus, devastated when he was fired, said farewell with Playboy’s Yes Girl.
Roundtable of top Hollywood screenwriters.
Diane Keaton remembers having Thanksgiving with Grammy Hall.
Thousands of Occupy LA supporters converge as a park is about to be cleared.
Kamran Loghman, “who helped develop pepper spray into a weapons-grade material,” disgusted by pepper-spray cop.
Occupy protests to return even bigger and with a vengeance in the spring, possibly to terrorize the institutional left. #longreads
Alan Moore on the V for Vendetta mask that’s become all the rage for Occupy protesters.
Further notes on Strauss-Kahn, the high-fiving dance, and the BlackBerry.
Strauss-Kahn being investigated for allegedly having prostitutes flown to DC for entertainment.
Airplane rules about digital devices lack sense—telling passengers to boot up simultaneously may be dangerous.