October 29, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- White House poised to ban spying on heads of allied countries; former intelligence director tells leaders to get off cell phones.
- Obama didn't know before the Snowden leaks that the NSA was targeting as many as 35 world leaders.
- Brief introduction to the "five eyes" club, where the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand don't spy on each other.
- If you can't control yourself around the internet, the problem is you, not the technology.
- The only way to fight texting-while-walking is to deliberately bump into someone.
- Cross-cultural examinations of what is "cool" finds that it's hip to be square in Canada.
- Taylor has a theory about the economics of chilis: like hemlines, they rise when times are tough.
- According to the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, the optimal time to drink coffee is at 2:16pm.
- Human remains found Monday at a Los Angeles waste treatment plant believed to be related to human remains found over the weekend at a similar facility.
- Federal judge in Texas blocks important part of the state’s restrictive new abortion law, saying measure served no medical purpose.
- Moneyed Texas shooting club attempts to save highly endangered black rhino population by shooting one.
- Anthropomorphized awards ceremony for the 423 other species in the primate order.
- See also: Anthony Lane writes about cats at The New Yorker—which either really is your thing or is not.
- I played team sports all through middle in high school, and I can't think of a single time we were all in the locker room talking about which boys we were totally gonna bone after the game.
- Mother leaves sign on stoop for person who stole her son's pumpkin.
- See also: Halloween costume ideas based on actual awful people from history.
- With online marketplace Etsy's new "handmade in spirit," policies, vendors can outsource manufacturing.
