Headlines from March 30, 2012

U.S. kids with autism up 78% in past decade; leap credited to better/broader diagnosis.
Britain: The silliest country in the world, with regard to gas.
Winners revealed of the Washington Post‘s Annual Peeps Diorama contest.
Photos of decommissioning space shuttles.
RIP, Harry Crews.
Pictures of drivers going 70 miles an hour taken by a medium-format camera attached to another car. #tmn
Chart shows how books sell once they escape copyright and can be reissued.
Wikipedia’s list of lists of books.
Final match of this year’s Tournament of Books. Vive le Rooster! #therooster
Available one more day: a free Rooster notebook when you buy from Field Notes.
Also: Win a copy of Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by TMN’s @Rosecrans Baldwin.
Account of events leading up to a match played by two tennis pros who survived the Titanic.
Profile of Swiss speed mountaineer, “whose rapid ascents are just as demanding as three-minute miles.”
President of Flat Earth Society explains why Earth is flat. #video
Excerpts from the amazing Lancet article on the history of arctic madness.
History of the breast implant.
Kofi Annan expects Syrian government to implement his peace plan immediately.
GOP leaders quietly working to kill amendments that reaffirm opposition to same-sex unions.
Barack Obama is superhuman; David Axelrod is a guy you meet at a deli. On the workaday heroism of the political operative.
Female Iranian ninjas sue Reuters for calling them killers.
Maryland Batman visits children in hospitals when he isn’t being pulled over for speeding.
Spike Lee settles with family he mis-outed on Twitter for being connected to George Zimmerman.
Google Earth giving shape to Indian slums.
Pictures of fields where soccer was once played.
Contents revealed of smoothie that Maestro Tilson Thomas prepares prior to conducting Cage.
Sasha Frere-Jones offers a guide to the gems of Twitter should Franzen decide to come around.
Dick Clark puts up for sale his real-life Flintstones house.
Comedian writes up his attempt to join a cheerleading troupe.
Headscratching episodes in the never-ending love story of Superman and Lois Lane.
I have a motto: it’s never too late to give up. It’s never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realize you love.