December 9, 2011: Morning
- At about 5 a.m. today, the EU's plates diverged along the English Channel.
- Mogadishu sees new, fierce fighting between al-Shabab militants and government and AU troops.
- Al-Shabab takes to Twitter.
- American jailed in Thailand for 2.5 years for posting links to banned biography of Thailand's king.
- Attention, Americans: "Awesome" is going nowhere.
- Notes on the value of vowels, and why most people imagine Frosh as creamier than Frish.
- Ballistics evidence links yesterday's two fatal shootings at Virginia Tech.
- Occupy Wall Street occupies fake Occupy Wall Street camp built for Law and Order.
- Family Guy writer isn't upset he got arrested at Occupy LA; he's pissed that Citigroup's Charles Prince won't see jail time.
- Abstractly related: Fixed-perspective Sea World illustrations.
- Story of the night one photographer put seven Santas in a diner.
- Round-up of news and reviews for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
- Former architectural-drafting student Ice Cube opines on Charles and Ray Eames.
- See also: Anthony Kiedis "gently intertwines" with Ed Ruscha.
- "The actual experience of being left-handed is rather mundane, by most accounts"—and so is the new book about handedness.