December 3, 2012: Afternoon
- Humanitarian adventure journalist David Oliver Relin, co-author of Three Cups of Tea, dies at 49.
- Paul Ford on how the contemporary Authentocracy is ruling your happiness.
- On unfinished novels: "The fatal flaw in all them was my abysmal plot-developing skills."
- Two years ago, an LA man abandoned his loft—but never foreclosed—and an alleged real estate agent leased it to a new tenant.
- Thomas Jefferson, jerk.
- High overhead and plummeting wholesale milk prices are killing small dairy farms.
- Related: "The Death of Farmbrain."
- How the impossible-to-film battle episode of Game of Thrones happened.
- Bad kids jokes, collected.
- Where "booger" might have killed in 1998, 2004 demands nothing less than an "underpants."
- Skyfall's tech fails.