September 3, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- For the past six years, the DEA has had access to AT&T phone records dating back to 1987.
- With new variations emerging daily, synthetic drugs stay ahead of law enforcement, though not the ER.
- Serial killing is down and the peer-to-peer economy is booming: Once again, Americans trust strangers.
- If management wants to replace the working class with computers...make them pay for it.
- Prisoners describe the internet, which they've never seen.
- Reuniting with a beloved TI-83 Plus graphing calculator, "a school-sanctioned Game Boy."
- Two Japanese special-effects companies say costumes and tiny cities offer more realism than CGI can.
- Some CVS receipts now reach up to six feet long.
- The laws of physics say you—an asymmetrical blight on the universe—shouldn't exist.
- One day, for four hours, Tom Fields-Meyer stopped remembering.
- From Nixon to Ali, the most memorable interviews of David Frost, who died on Saturday.
- Being in that crowd, a sea of drunk White male faces and seeing Chappelle sit there and be jeered at made me uncomfortable.
- Josh Cagan on a life unlived.
- From the attic: Josh Cagan has a plan for how Hollywood can survive a writers' strike.
- Miamians react to learning from NPR that they have an accent.
