October 28, 2011: Afternoon
- China admits two tons of "gutter oil" are consumed in restaurants; real amount believed ten times larger.
- Taibbi: Rick Perry is the best little whore In Texas.
- Hitchens drops the hammer on those who encourage dying people to believe in God.
- Advanced degrees increasingly helping firefighters get ahead.
- Literary magazines shouldn't charge a fee for submissions—they should charge a subscription.
- Scientists use Google Translate-like tech to translate secret, 250-year-old cipher.
- Photo request sparks correspondence between Eliot and Groucho Marx, and weird letters ensue.
- Cargo container arrives emitting torrents of radiation. No one knows what to do next.
- Examples of extraordinary pumpkins.
- Scary story completed by TMNers.
- Facebook builds data centers in town that's "a morning's drive" from the Arctic Circle.
- New York show to see before it closes tomorrow: Karl Haendel and Petter Ringbom's "Questions for My Father."
- Kate Grace Thomas on writing about Libya for Lonely Planet—during the revolution.