August 15, 2014
By The Morning News
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- "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" rallies took place in 90+ cities last night over the shooting of Missouri's Michael Brown.
- Transcript of Michael Brown's friend recounting what happened when the teen was killed.
- Related: Reddit's live updates of police-scanner reports and news stories for Ferguson.
- Military equipment is used against an enemy; if you give the same equipment to local police, you create an environment in which the public is perceived as an enemy.
- Reporters in Ferguson "discover" that McDonald's offers free Wifi, even to people who don't buy food.
- US military rolls back bans on popular black hairstyles, following months of backlash.
- Cop dresses as a giant traffic cone in LA sting operation.
- NATO secretary confirms "incursion" of Russian weapons and fighters into Ukraine.
- UK economy grew 3.2% in the second quarter, fueled by construction.
- New York Times hits web-traffic "high note" with series endorsing marijuana legalization.
- Pizza now the top-mentioned food in the Times, formerly dominated by hamburgers; tacos rising.
- Email is the best part of the internet.
- New trend in selfies: Statue selfies, where soon the Venus de Milo may somehow snap her own photo.
- The most popular people are 29-year-olds, each with an average of 80 friends.
- Asked to describe the main characters from their favorite novels, readers talk first about how they move.
- Fashion/internet phenom Tavi Gevinson to star on Broadway, having finished her "meta-adolescence."
- Feminist reinventions of classic movies.
- See also: Artist turns Great Depression western village into all-female enclave.
