Headlines from December 4, 2012

In the years since Howard Dean’s quick rise and quicker fall, the left has embraced a model of campaign that’s fueled by data.
I’m going to remind myself all over again why I retired in the first place. Roddick faces Murray in exhibition match. #tennis
The story so far: On the lam, John McAfee claims to be wearing disguises, maintaining sobriety, and pulling pranks.
Update on McAfee: Now he’s in Guatemala, and he’s lawyering up.
Matthew Baldwin’s annual Good Gift Games guide: 10 board games to replace typical human interaction. #tmn
Related: More 2012 game recommendations from Matthew Baldwin. #games
So you know: Spinning pennies will land tails up to 80% of the time.
The brick just kind of melts. Engineers find out how tall a Lego tower can get before the bottom brick is destroyed.
Related: A survey of children to determine what they call all the different Lego bricks. #tmn
Former Apple hand model reminisces on Steve Jobs, too-long fingernails, and swipe streaks.
Onion: “Dunbar family forced to discontinue print edition of Christmas newsletter.”
I would like to…talk to you as men who are not poets do not often talk. Stoker and Whitman’s lifelong correspondence.
The Millions kicks off its 2012 “Year in Reading.” #books
Park Slope’s pink brownstone is no more.
The 45 most powerful images of 2012. #photos
This is how we celebrate “This Is How We Do It.”
Al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen crucifies, amputates, and tortures, and also provides public services.
Bahrain’s embrace of a Kardashian is part of a larger effort to shift news coverage away from protest marches.
Facebook’s Chris Hughes, now owner-editor of the New Republic, represents “a savior from the future for the institutions of the past.”
First tweet from the Pope expected on Dec. 12; for now, the Pope follows no one.
Jazz historian picks 100 best albums from the 817 he listened to in 2012.
Photographs and newspaper quotes after a 1925 fire at Madame Tussauds wax museum in London. via
Google Maps’ Street View function transformed into abstract paintings. #tmn
See also: “Planned Cities Seen From Space.”
New method to delay elimination of Arctic sea ice: Reroute planes to circumnavigate the Arctic Circle.
American Academy of Pediatrics recommends giving girls prescriptions for emergency contraception, just in case.
New Dutch condom can be used with one hand, thanks to “wings.”
Society may not agree, but “there’s no real proof that low levels of drinking are harmful to a fetus.”
Starting the Panthers-Chiefs game with silence was a nice gesture; considering the NFL’s domestic-abuse problem, it was an empty one.
I feel like I get paid to play videogames. Day in the life of an elevator optimizer.
Wedding photographer tracks down former clients to see how their marriages are going.
What it looks like inside Amazon’s warehouses. #photography
In case you missed it: “My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine.”
See also: Borders was once a glorious workplace.