October 18, 2011: Morning
- Photos from the weekend's global Occupy Wall Street protests.
- Algorithms, not censorship, prevent the #occupy movement from trending on Twitter.
- Gilad Shalit: "I haven't seen people in a long time."
- Apple vs. Facebook vs. Google vs. Amazon—for the future of the innovation economy.
- How the newsweeklies covered (and designed) Steve Jobs's death.
- Jobs's fellow Reed calligraphers discuss the now-apocryphal class that led to the Mac's typography.
- Improv Everywhere founder's wedding interrupted by wrestler.
- Survey finds voters see tall politicians as better suited for leadership.
- Heights of today's world leaders.
- Eighty dead after week of torrential rains in Central America.
- The most important thing to realize about the space shuttle program is that it is objectively a failure.
- Take a picture when you leave the house today: how close is the recession to your door?
- John Jeremiah Sullivan on One Tree Hill being filmed in his house.
- National Book Award asks mistakenly nominated author to recuse herself “to preserve the integrity of the award.”
- The NBA has "got enough gall to be divided into three parts.”