Citigroup Posts $9.8 Billion Loss; Will Cut 4000 Jobs - New York Times. and “cutting its dividend by 41 percent and obtaining a $12.5 billion cash infusion” from investors like the Singapore government.

Can There Be Too Many Tourists? In Tuscany, Maybe - New York Times. the town of Sienna is fighting an airport expansion. “We don’t object to growth, but our main intent is to remain human.”

NYTimes Op-ed asking if Amazon’s customer service is the reason for it’s stock rise. “According to Forrester Research, 52 percent of people who shop online say they do their product research on Amazon.”, that is nuts.

The New York Times | 2007: The Year in Pictures. nice full screen flash interface. photo #8 in the “Washington” section is so creepy.

The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto | The New York Times. i find it odd that there’s people who stand and take photos (instead of running) while bombs go off.

No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions - New York Times. review of Overtreated, a book about the economics of the health care industry and how to fix the mess in the US.

Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust - New York Times. on the problems of programming on multi-core processors and the people microsoft hired to work on the problem.

The Self-Righting Object - New York Times “The Gomboc is a roundish piece of clear synthetic material with gently peaked, organic curves. It looks like a piece of modern art. But if you tip it over, something unusual happens: it rights itself.”

The Murphy Balcony - New York Times. a cool idea from the year in ideas issue.

Serfs of the Turf - New York Times. Michael Lewis on the hypocritical business of “amateur” college football.

Senate Approves Trimmed - Back Energy Bill - New York Times. requires fleet average of 35MPG by 2020. That’s easy for cars by todays standards, definitely not for SUVs and trucks.

Penthouse Buys AdultFriendFinder for $500 million - New York Times. why didn’t i think of that?

Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts - New York Times. it’s amazing how badly we fuck over africa with farm subsidies.

Gospel Truth. it seems National Geographic totally messed up the interpretation of the Book of Judas. Turns out the book actually says Judas was a demon. ya, a demon.

Bourbon’s Shot at the Big Time - New York Times. i’ve become a fan of bourbon since moving to the states.

A Hoax Turned Fatal Draws Anger but No Charges - New York Times. unreal. i think i would have killed several people had I been the father involved.

The Kick Is Up and It’s … A Career Killer - New York Times. fantastic article by Michael Lewis on the life of a NFL field goal kicker. This video montage of “greatest” field goals over at nfl.com has most of the Adam Vinateri highlights talked about in the article.

M.I.T. Sues Frank Gehry, Citing Flaws in Center He Designed - New York Times. that’ll teach you for buying a crazy looking building.

Self-service, Prorated Super Computing Fun! - New York Times Blog. the NYTimes used EC2 to generate a couple terabytes of pdfs and stored it all on S3. not too shabby.

Thomas Friedman on the 9/11 rut that American is in. he even references the Onion in the piece.