February 15, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Governments begin to use lotteries to encourage good citizenship.
- Travel agents routinely beat online sites for finding cheaper fares; if the agent has a horrible website, they're probably legit.
- Long investigation into how iPhone apps use information stored in your address book.
- Critique of journalism, PR, and attack dogs in "the cesspool" of Silicon Valley.
- Q&A with author Cheryl Strayed, revealed to be the Rumpus's Dear Sugar columnist.
- Chicago's new magazine, The Chicagoan, to go highbrow about the city and Midwestern stories.
- London and New York taxis could learn lessons from Tehran's "sophisticated eco-system of cab options."
- Reminder: Sharks are alone on Valentine's Day and every other day.
- Everything you wanted to know about the extraordinary history of the American wild hog.
- Short film about Bermuda's Johnny Barnes, who spends six hours a day wishing love to cars.
- "Jeremy Lin can drop 38 points on the Lakers, but he can't open the n-word to white or Asian people."
- Profile of Coleridge's son, pegged as poetry's biggest disappointment.
- Pictures of Michael Cunningham's bookcases, including his built-in bathroom storage.
- Jamie Oliver finds guns, gold, and Joy Division master tapes in the basement of his new restaurant.
