September 6, 2013: Afternoon
- Obama directs Pentagon to expand its list of potential Syrian air-strike targets.
- The latest House whip count on authorizing force in Syria: 217 say or lean no, 44 say yes.
- Iran orders attack on American interests in Baghdad if the U.S. commits to striking Syria.
- Iran’s new foreign minister wishes Jews a happy new year on Twitter and engages in Holocaust-denial discussion with Nancy Pelosi's daughter.
- For your dinner-party savvy, an illustrated tour of recent Syrian history.
- Former Syrian soldier describes life in Assad's army.
- Author who wrote about escaping the Taliban dragged from her home in Afghanistan and murdered.
- "Poll: Majority Of Americans Approve Of Sending Congress To Syria."
- The traveling salesman problem grows considerably more complex when you actually have to think about the happiness of the salesman.
- Twelve years after its debut, the classic, spinning-wheel iPod is headed to pasture.
- See also: From 2001, Steve Jobs's low-key introduction of the iPod.
- Reader of the Snowden files offers five ways to stay safe in the face of NSA surveillance.
- A search engine reveals the internet of the many things anyone can hijack to spy on you.
- See also: Giles Turnbull's "The Internet of Actual Things."
- Fifteen things you didn't know about Google; e.g., almost all of Mozilla's money comes from Google.
- Had Max Mosley not sued Google to suppress photos of his not-at-all Nazi-themed orgy, everyone would have forgotten by now.
- Hitler's bodyguard, the last surviving witness from the Berlin bunker, dies at 96—still a fan to the very end.
- Christopher Schaberg charmingly muses on the value of a jet bridge.