September 29, 2011: Afternoon
- Excellent, lucid summary of current events in the Middle East.
- Al Qaeda asks Ahmadinejad and other conspiracy theorists to stop giving the U.S. credit for 9/11.
- Paper says the economic crisis is no longer making Americans unhappy, so maybe we're heading for a cliff.
- More Pinker on the decline of violence, but this time with charts.
- Everyone knows where indicted warlord Bosco is, but terror saves him from being taken to the Hague.
- Report on life inside America's only Scientology-affiliated boarding school.
- Easily embarrassed people are trusted more.
- Rick Perry speech dubbed with extremely poor lip reading.
- Robottke created to replicate "the Web's best link blogger."
- “When people talk to like-minded others, they tend to amplify their preexisting views, and to do so in a way that reduces their internal diversity.”
- Betting odds on this year's Nobel Prize in Literature puts Pynchon in third place.
- Next wave in international crime fiction: trouble down under.
- Academic explanation of why watching Brad Pitt play Brad Pitt onscreen is so damn enjoyable.
- Epicurean survival tactics to make the most of life in Havana.
- Tokyo deaf couple's home has nearly 100 windows so the parents can sign to their kids when they're playing outside.
- Customer reviews for "Hgiyiyi (hgjhjh, hjhk)."