February 9, 2012: Afternoon
- Panetta says not even our biggest "bunker buster" could reach underground Iranian nuclear installations.
- Brazil demands that Twitter ban users who warn of police speed traps and roadblocks.
- Coffee shops invade India, and young people enjoy them mostly for hanging out.
- Interview with Berlusconi as he prowls around his gigantic Rome apartment in thick makeup and stacked-heel sneakers.
- Reactions on Facebook to stories by The Onion that people believe are real.
- Chart shows which information popular apps (Angry Birds, etc.) give away to third parties.
- Bringing iPads to the classroom helps Apple, not the kids.
- Screenshots from iPad lovers living "at the intersection of art, stories, and technology."
- Poetry from Craigslist Missed Connections.
- Less said the better: Werner Herzog on chickens.
- Quick guide to National Security Agency jargon.
- This was pointed out to us, so we'll point it out to you: a school named University of Maryland University College.
- Story of the plot to kill a man for life insurance, and the target who just wouldn't die.
- Analyzing "Plitdown Man" could clear names of Arthur Conan Doyle and others implicated in archaeology's greatest hoax.
- Classical musician argues for playing in bars: patrons enjoy "an enhanced degree of listening."
- Sam Anderson goes to Dickens World.