August 30, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Comparing violence in Iraq and Chicago, Kanye forgets civilian casualties (though Chicago's still dangerous).
- BBC News debunks five Sept. 11 conspiracy theories.
- California mulls banning Styrofoam containers starting in 2016.
- Windows's iconic "bliss" wallpaper is a real photo, taken by Charles O’Rear in Sonoma in 2006.
- Santa Cruz uses crime-predicting software to deploy police; burglaries are down 27 percent.
- How Edgar Valdez, American jock, became Barbie, Mexican drug lord.
- Patchett: The book, I am here to tell you, is not dead, and neither is the bookstore.
- Cancelled: Baywatch star's quest to discover Noah's Ark.
- Screenwriters of Game of Thrones talk about upcoming episodes, Emmy nominations, lack of sexual violence.
- Flat-out terrific DJ set for BBC 1 by Jamie xx.
- New for 2011: Horse Cop: Undercover, from makers of Seal Fish: The Legend of Deep Water.
- Hardships experienced by actors during infomercials.
- Though no one asked, company reinvents paperclip anyway with new, "clicky" form.
- Academic publishers, "parasitic overlords" of "the knowledge monopoly," are the world's most ruthless capitalists.
