Headlines from February 10, 2012

Optimism in Tripoli over oil reserves, but the government is paralyzed, the army is just another militia.
Further violence in Athens as bailout deal goes to Greek Parliament.
“I’m probably the wealthiest Indian in America.” Inventor of 5-Hour Energy spent his twenties as a monk trying to still his mind.
Paul Krugman vs. other economists—“saltwater” vs. “freshwater”—illustrated.
Comic: Why, if you really hate someone, you should teach them about typography.
Francis Ford Coppola talks money and happiness.
Diner was the most influential movie of the ‘90s, or, Why Nick Hornby Fan-Attacked Kevin Bacon at a Party. #longreads
President Obama joins Spotify.
Adam Johnson on the difficulty of writing about North Koreans when you’re not allowed to speak to any North Koreans.
Website helps Icelandic couples avoid incest—necessary in a country of only 300,000.
Techniques for rifling the internet’s open-secret file drawers. via
Law enforcement sketches of Humbert Humbert, Emma Bovary, and other characters.
Interview with Hanksy—artist who combines Banksy with Tom Hanks—by Tom Hanks’s daughter.
At home with gallerist Caitlin Moore.
Very short Friday poem: “With Drizzled Warm Butter, Intensely Rendered.”
With the foreclosure settlement behind them, banks can look forward to more lawsuits and criminal charges.
[China] would much rather see future consumption…via lower household savings than through splurges on credit cards.
For those who know, it’s not America vs. China in a battle for supremacy, it’s market vs. state capitalism. #opinions
Mexico seizes record amount of methamphetamine: 15 tons, or about 13 million doses worth $4 billion.
Even post-Prufrock and Waste Land, T.S. Eliot refused to give up his day job at the bank. via
Teachers blame a string of tuba thefts on the popularity of banda music, in which the instrument plays a major role.
Some play whisks and garlic presses, but music marketers block new instruments from taking hold.
Followers of the Swedish-dominated sport of rabbit hurdling know British rabbits can’t jump.
For the seventh year in a row, Thomas Dold wins the men’s division of the run up the Empire State Building.
Author John Christopher, who published the 1967-68 “Tripod Series” of young adult books, dies at 89.
The Boy’s Life comic adaption of Christopher’s The White Mountains. via
Moon trees and eight other treasures lost to science.
A spider that looks like an ant.
Photo and video guide to the Northern Lights.