Headlines from October 26, 2012

Why companies in the same industry tend to wind up in the vicinity of one another.
Interactive graphs show America’s economic stagnation over the past decade. #chart
Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t achieve desired outcomes for the U.S., but its military still dominates all others.
The internet needs content like Donald Trump needs scalp glue. John Warner rejects the election. #tmn
Young adults moving out of their parents’ houses or away from college towns at the fastest rate since 2005.
Fans and resellers hoard Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry, now only sold in stores during Halloween.
I’m just happy to have people reading my work. When Russians pirate and translate your book.
Like Guitar Hero on your keyboard: Typing Karaoke. #diversions
Housing developers try to dump a Frank Lloyd Wright before it achieves landmark status, and they lose their investment.
Von Spakovsky has had an improbably large impact. Meet the Republican lawyer behind the myth of voter fraud. #longreads
Firing back at Texas AG, blogger is “eager to catch a minority in the act of showing something other than their original birth certificate and college transcripts.”
Nathan Deuel looks for the reality of Homeland while living in Beirut.
See also: Deuel’s transmissions from Beirut, “Husband, Father, Writer, War.” #tmn
By the election, the presidential candidates and their parties will each have raised more than $1 billion.
New Obama ad featuring Lena Dunham extolling her “first time” is the same as an old Vladimir Putin spot.
Political ads have “shockingly small” influence; the campaigns are spending about $1,000 per persuadable voter.
Meat Loaf endorses Romney because he agrees the Cold War is alive.
It is statistically possible that the outcome of a handful of college football games in the right battleground states could determine the race for the White House.
Like Paul Ryan, Obama has read Ayn Rand; unlike Ryan, he realized some books are best left to self-consumed 17-year-olds.
The speed of people becoming capable of drinking milk is one of the weirder mysteries in human evolution.
How an algorithm about marriage matches has been governing kidney exchange for decades.
Secret history of the game Monopoly told through a visit to the 25th Annual Corporate Monopoly Tournament.
Jonathan Safran Foer on the jock-ness and Jewishness of Bobby Fischer.
If you have books, you have everything. In 1971, a small-town librarian asked famous figures for advice for the town’s children; they responded. via
Concise summary of The Wizard of Oz, that film of murderers.
Learning how to embalm, visiting Edgar Allen Poe’s house, and more in a round-up of weekend reading for spooky interests. #tmn
Round-up of finalists for the Worst Band Shirt Ever contest.