May 24, 2012: Afternoon
- Polls open on the second day of Egypt's first presidential election.
- BBC live blog of Egypt's election.
- Pakistani doctor who helped find Bin Laden sentenced to 33 years for spying.
- White guy explains how to be hired by Chinese firms seeking white males to attend meetings.
- Beijing residents mock new law requiring public bathrooms to have no more than two flies.
- China won't implode anytime soon—but that doesn't make it a first-rate society.
- Controversial Johannesburg painting of Zuma's penis vandalized.
- Fascinating notes on diplomatic "barnacles"—people who cling to embassy events.
- Pictures of Joplin, Mo., one year after its devastating tornado.
- "Pecking order" is an efficient way to run a business as well as a chicken coop.
- History of the paper clip, unchanged since it was first invented in 1899.
- At this point TED is a massive, money-soaked orgy of self-congratulatory futurism.
- Confessions of a recovering lifehacker.
- Fan of Van Morrison for more than 40 years explains the appeal.
- Jennifer Egan shows how to write short fiction in tiny boxes.
- Zach Galifianakis to play Ignatius J. Reilly in Confederacy of Dunces film.
- Study of Marc Maron's narcissistic, chauvinistic, compelling, and funny podcast, "WTF."
- Tumblr of scenes from The Simpsons inspired by the movies.