November 8, 2011: Afternoon
- Berlusconi wins budget vote, but seems to lose majority in Italy's lower house of parliament.
- Six biggest American publishers refuse titles for launch of Amazon's lending library.
- Interview from 1994 has Fidel Castro talking cigars.
- "Shooter's sandwich" has two steaks, one loaf of bread.
- Joe Frazier was "both ruined and elevated by Ali, marinating in his bitterness all those years later."
- Several prominent employees at the state university are morally guilty. And one of them is Joe Paterno.
- How a programmer created software that writes sports articles.
- Map of one day's business for Boston's public bus system.
- Assuming they need light too, aliens hunted by looking for bright spots on other planets.
- Technical hitch sees all of town's fireworks released within one minute.
- Sixty-two percent of undergraduates and 40% of graduate students admit to having cheated on written work.
- Lorin Stein cops to the books he's never read or completed.
- Venerable culture website 3 Quarks Daily asks for help.
- To guess the future of solar energy, it may be wise to bet on a Moore's Law rate of improvement.
- Fake Facebook profile collects 175 pieces of publicly inaccessible data daily.
- Ultramarathon running simply called "ultra"—pain is its defining characteristic.