October 6, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Former Gizmodo editor remembers the kindness of Steve Jobs, wishes the iPhone 4 scoop happened differently.
- Mossberg remembers the Jobs he knew, who phoned on Sunday nights, which annoyed his wife.
- The iPod was...so forward-thinking that no one even knew they were supposed to want one until it was announced.
- Boston Globe from 1900 imagines the year 2000: moving sidewalks, air conditioning, night baseball.
- Researchers find a comet that contains water more like that on Earth than in other comets.
- Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
- "As the gulf speaks, it speaks with one voice, and says here are the things we need to do to save the gulf."
- Rebels from Misurata, where more than 1,100 were killed in the Libyan uprising, take revenge on Gadhafi's hometown.
- South Korea struggles to free students from overeducation, imposes curfews on after-school academies.
- Before Hitler, the hypothetical worst person imaginable was the pharaoh.
- Six ways to never get lost in a city again.
