November 2, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Merkel would like "clarity" on the whole Greece risking a big populist "no" vote and chaotic E.U. exit.
- Former skinhead renounces hate, needs 25 surgeries to remove tattoos.
- Infographics are a thoroughly Victorian, not modern, phenomenon.
- Tweeting Birmingham, England's newspaper ads of yore.
- Reminiscing about a 1980s Toronto birthday party space that borrowed more than a page from Lord of the Flies.
- Suitcases from an insane asylum.
- Barnes & Noble's floor-space reorganization, giving more room to Nooks, suggests its end is nigh.
- Why fat-cat Kurt Vonnegut would have stood with Occupy Wall Street.
- 3-D printers show their practicality by whipping up a mean Lucky Charms marshmallow-from-cereal sifter.
- Hallowed McRib made of spare pig parts and plastic.
- Inventors of Post-It note, text message, etc., talk about their eureka moments.
- Grantland assigns college basketball players to first and second All-American teams, with assessment.
- How blind people cross the street solo.
- Offense taken when people in stock images pretend to be smashing things but obviously are not.
