December 7, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- "Prepare for War: The Insane Plan to Outlaw Diplomacy With Iran."
- The surge of Newt is real, causing Obama's advisors to rewrite the playbook, or at least write a new one.
- Obama takes the Roosevelt raceway while gunning for Romney, Republicans, etc.
- Tom Bartlett profiles Gene Weingarten, who writes about money, sex, and bacon, and has two Pulitzers.
- Shares in the Green Bay Packers, currently top of the NFC, went on sale yesterday.
- Travel lessons from tourism professors—e.g., little correlation between comments and numerical assessments on TripAdvisor.
- Teddy Wayne recounts his three-month Facebook conversation with a scammer from Malaysia.
- Tale of going through Blackout, New York's pay-for-torture storefront, which sounds incredibly awful.
- Interview with David Cronenberg about Freud, Jung, and "the sexy nerd kind of thing."
- Fun party science stunts explained, like foot-twisting and the balancing Coke.
- Ten things everyone should know about time.
- Zoomable map of Paris from 1550.
- Matthew Baldwin's best games of 2011.
- Also good for your December shopping: TMN's Kindle edition of its best holiday stories, introduced by Sarah Hepola.
- List of the best games available for iPad/iPhone, based on what other games you like.
- Siri as Apple's broken promise.
- New iPhone software takes emoji—more elaborate cousins of emoticons—mainstream.
