December 14, 2011: Afternoon
- Gawker dumps files documenting every time a Blackwater guard shot at an Iraqi between 2005 and 2007.
- Author of "Observations From 20 Years in Iowa" cites "raging bonfire" of backlash that has him scared.
- Podcasts on how to negotiate with kids, jerks, and the opposite sex.
- Why leaning to the left makes us think objects are smaller: estimating involves "anchoring and alignment."
- The year in pictures rendered in Lego.
- Account of a Christmas song recording session with John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Phil Spector.
- Profile of Britain's longest-serving Santa.
- Profile of Ono and Lennon's man Friday in New York, impresario Norman Seaman.
- Master list of contemporary rockers' photographed pedalboards.
- Photo of the day: ski racing-themed bathroom from Japanese ski resort.
- Sample exam to see if you could pass as a New York City cab driver.
- How to be a tourist in midtown Manhattan on a budget.
- Tales of sex and drugs on New York's High Line.
- New reason cited to join the Facebook zombies: the norms are shifting—so what have you got to hide?
- Witch beheadings and "anti-Witchcraft units" still going strong in Saudi Arabia.
- Irish betting odds on when a woolly mammoth will be cloned.
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin on his embarrassing addiction to coffee made from pods.
- George Takei issues call for Star Trek and Star Wars fans to come together—to fight Twilight.