October 3, 2011: Afternoon
- Elections in Zambia symbolize democratic progress in southern Africa: rare and patchy, but ongoing.
- Eight ways to keep young officers from running away from an Army career.
- About that iPhone/fMRI story over the weekend: Brain-imaging experts call big-time bogus.
- Items confiscated from people entering British Parliament.
- Interactive map of crime data for American towns and cities.
- New Christoph Niemann piece helps you visualize your internet passwords.
- People photograph familiar objects—e.g., the Mona Lisa—to make them real.
- T.C. Boyle's advice for writers who want to get into the New Yorker: wait for the older writers, and the editors who love them, to die.
- How to approach black metal.
- Essay accounts for what Google knows and wants to know about you.
- Also by Chad States, this week's TMNGallery artist: "Men at Their Most Masculine". (Don't miss the captions; one image NSFW.)
- Desire expressed for a spatial history of trapdoors in plays, fiction, thrillers, even dreams.
- Spooky Lego Victorians.
- Oldie but goodie: Geoff Dyer on the thrill of a New York coffee and donut.
- Maud Newton cooks Harry Crews's rattlesnake.
- Appreciation of Philip Levine, poet laureate from the Proletariat.