November 15, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Aid goes unseen in many parts of the Philippines; officials post death toll of 4,000 in Tacloban alone.
- Police commander in the Philippines fired for his estimate of 10,000 dead from the typhoon.
- In the midst of a "robbery epidemic," rich neighborhoods in Oakland, Calif., hire private cops.
- Police officers in Kenya, believed to be the country's most corrupt officials, now take bribes by cellphone.
- Photo released of a saola in the wild in Vietnam—the rare "Asian unicorn" that doesn't exist in captivity.
- Pop Warner football programs see a 10% drop in participation between 2010 and 2012.
- Studies say if you want to waste time online productively, "stare at random YouTube babies, not the babies of your Facebook friends."
- Mormon writers said to gravitate to genre fiction because it avoids the dirty aspects of adult life and avoids disapproval.
- Author William T. Vollmann reveals he is a devoted cross-dresser in a new book of photographs and paintings.
- Publishers of tiny, semi-cult magazines discuss how they've adapted—or not—to the digital world.
- New credit card Coin stores all of your other cards' information inside it.
- See also: Classical paintings modified to include iPhones and other Apple products.
- Canadian competitive laughing championship offers "the Alabama Knee-Slapper," the "Sexiest Laugh," and Gary Oldman’s Dracula.
- Trailer for what appears to be the new movie by Alfonso Cuarón (not really), IKEA.
- Related: Matthew Baldwin's classic, "fully immersive" IKEA adventure.
- Homes offered for people who love the Disneyland experience so much, they want to live inside it.
