December 4, 2012: Afternoon
- In the years since Howard Dean's quick rise and quicker fall, the left has embraced a model of campaign that's fueled by data.
- Roddick faces Murray in exhibition match.
- The story so far: On the lam, John McAfee claims to be wearing disguises, maintaining sobriety, and pulling pranks.
- Update on McAfee: Now he's in Guatemala, and he's lawyering up.
- Matthew Baldwin's annual Good Gift Games guide: 10 board games to replace typical human interaction.
- Related: More 2012 game recommendations from Matthew Baldwin.
- So you know: Spinning pennies will land tails up to 80% of the time.
- Engineers find out how tall a Lego tower can get before the bottom brick is destroyed.
- Related: A survey of children to determine what they call all the different Lego bricks.
- Former Apple hand model reminisces on Steve Jobs, too-long fingernails, and swipe streaks.
- Onion: "Dunbar family forced to discontinue print edition of Christmas newsletter."
- Stoker and Whitman's lifelong correspondence.
- The Millions kicks off its 2012 "Year in Reading."
- Park Slope's pink brownstone is no more.
- The 45 most powerful images of 2012.
- This is how we celebrate "This Is How We Do It."