November 7, 2011: Afternoon
- If you want to see Italy on the road to ruin, there's no shortage of signposts.
- Italy placed under special IMF preventive regime for fear of collapse, due to credibility issues.
- Thousands donate to pay massive tax bill served on Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
- Amazon in China changes from amazon.com.cn to z.cn ”to make it easier to remember.”
- Assessing Chinese novelists who find fame by flouting censors on the internet.
- Non-Americans list America's quirks—liberals flying flags, supermarkets offering pumpkins on tables, etc.
- Yelping with Cormac McCarthy.
- Andy Baio celebrates the supercut.
- Former Penn State football coach charged with 40 counts related to sexual abuse of young boys.
- Values determined for college majors.
- This is how the professionals taught the student sexers. The master would stand over the apprentice and watch. The student would pick up a chick, examine its rear, and toss it into one bin or the other.
- Photographs from fashion week venues, pre-runway.
- Ten roads to the end of the Earth.
- Pictures of celebrities with their eyebrows removed.