December 17, 2011: Weekend
- Tunisia celebrates a year since its revolution.
- Egyptian soliders and protestors continue to clash, undermining credibility of elections.
- Keep track of the Republican candidates, debates, primaries: six debates in January.
- Brazil to give World Cup soccer tickets for guns, make goalposts out of the weapons.
- Favela gangs provide social services and justice, less than optimal, but often better than the government.
- Franzen, Atwood, Naomi Klein design bank notes for the modern world.
- NASA developing a gun capable of harpooning a comet.
- Moby-Dick rage-comic video.
- Fugitive in China evaded police for 13 years while performing in 30 television shows.
- Mashup: Breaking Bart.
- North Korea unhappy with South Korea's psychological warfare: an ostentatious Christmas tree.