November 16, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Avoiding bankruptcy and defaulting twice in 2012, the U.S. Postal Service reports a $16 billion annual loss.
- Twinkies maker Hostess files motion to liquidate assets and sell off its brands.
- Some other second-tier industrial bakery will...continue producing the Ding-Dong, and the Wonder Bread, and other crap nobody wants.
- Vintage psychedelic Hostess commercials.
- Think-piecing our way through the Guy Fieri-New York Times feud: Elitism isn't the enemy, but bad junk is.
- Paul Ford: Websites, like presidential campaigns, succeed when they scale—can Occupy do the same?
- The latest in career advancement: Become a director for a trade association—or five.
- BP CEO thankful $40 billion fine "only amounts to 1 percent of the company’s gross revenue for 2011."
- China's new leaders: personable, forgiving, and mysterious.
- Madman Daily is China's Onion.
- Online snark in the form of micro-blogs pose a new challenge to China's propaganda machine.
- Get ready to spend Thanksgiving servicing your relatives' laptops: "Home for the Holiday Tech Support."
- Kurzweil's new book: full of holes—big, dubious, mind-blowing holes.
- Obit for paleontologist-polymath Farah Jenkins, a real-life Indiana Jones who discovered much in a well-traversed world.
