October 12, 2011: Afternoon
- "Largest recorded animal liberation ever in the U.S" ruins environmentally minded San Francisco high schoolers' big day.
- Complaint choirs a global phenomenon, frequently voicing the same complaints.
- California bans shark fin soup.
- Rules for actors from the Economist.
- Bit character from Austin Powers, already in jail for torture, kills cellmate.
- James Fallows recounts saga of having a Gmail account hacked.
- Kickstarter reaches million-backer mark, having pledged $100 million; NEA's 2011 budget is $154 million.
- Tech firm pioneers robot ghost town, bringing us closer to cities controlled by complex sensors.
- Ten emptiest cities in America finds Tuscon the most vacant.
- Worth revisiting: 100 abandoned houses.
- Staggering images from the Himalayas show the extent by which many glaciers have shrunk in the past 80 years.
- De Kooning, now at MoMA, still dazzles.
- Anthropologie parody blog.
- Honey bees vs. bumble bees in convenient chart form.