August 25, 2011: Morning
- Despite GOP protests, data models show the stimulus worked, though it may not kill the sound bite.
- Records show the corporations that win Texas state dollars are the ones that donate to Perry campaigns.
- Discovered in Gadhafi's compound: a photo album filled with pictures of Condoleezza Rice.
- He had a prolonged, vivid dream that he was living in an Italian villa, pacing the stone paths to get coffee and newspapers.
- Social media executives will meet with UK officials and discuss ways to curb online riot organizing.
- Analysis of riot-related tweets shows people were reacting, not plotting.
- NYPD's anti-terror espionage flouts jurisdiction, civil liberties—and makes no apologies.
- Internet Archive releases 3,000 hours of television news from the week of Sept. 11, 2001.
- War correspondents' favorite hotels.
- Conan the Barbarian screenwriter on what it's like to have your movie flop.
- Since the beginning of the recession, dog thefts have been on the rise.
- An annotated history of Wikipedia's "Lolita" page.
- An in-depth look at Michael Larson's amazing Press Your Luck win in 1984.