January 24, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Since Sandy Hook, there have been at least 1,173 gun deaths in America.
- Pentagon to remove ban on female service members in combat roles, based on women’s valor in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Navies still having trouble on that front underwater—42 countries use submarines, but only six allow women aboard.
- Japan's finance minister says elderly people (should) prefer to "hurry up and die" rather than tax health services.
- Creepstreams: An interactive map of insecure, publicly available home-security webcam feeds.
- Professor explains what it's like to be stalked online by a former student determined to ruin his reputation.
- "Charlie Brown" voice actor arrested for stalking and threats.
- Study finds that strong doubts before marriage predict higher divorce rate and more dissatisfaction.
- Overdue praise to the internet-era's Gogol: Ellen Ullman.
- Ullman in 2002, on programming the post-human: "Sentience is the crest of the body, not its crown."
- This week celebrates the 10th anniversary of R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)," perhaps the greatest song in contemporary pop.
- John Darnielle's 100 reasons why "Ignition (Remix)" is so superb.
- New website attempts to collect all 212,000 oil paintings owned by state and local authorities and charitable trusts in the UK.
- As more people take up gardening in the UK, more gardeners use brutal tactics to sabotage their neighbors.
- Pitchaya Sudbanthad begins his Thai-food column for TMN with kluay buat chee, bananas “in nunhood."
- Instructions and discussion about creating beautiful long-exposure photographs with beer cans.
