News from around the web: 2009-12-11

• Knowing goalkeepers movements in a penalty increases success rate and reduces kickers decision time
• Personalities accurately judged by physical appearance alone
• Abschied von Maastricht: Schäuble will 144,5 Mrd. Euro neue Schulden
• Germany’s Angela Merkel says bonus taxes a ‘charming idea but not for us’ – Telegraph
• Agan Harahap (Some hilarious Superhero photoshopping. Black and white makes it easier.)
• Craigslist founder felt cheated by eBay |Technology |guardian.co.uk
• Femenino plural, por FactoryGirl photography (Cute and funny picture.)
• Americans Consume 34GB of Content a Day – Lifehacker
• Apple Plots Reboot of iTunes for Web – WSJ.com
• House Democrat Ed Perlmutter Has Lots Of Reasons To Support Big Banks (You have to read this The timing of campaign contributions is amazing; that’s all I can say.)
• FT.com / Philip Stephens – US-Japan: an easy marriage becomes a menage trois
• FT.com – Facebook draws criticism for privacy changes
• FT.com – Obama defends war as the price of peace
• VIDEO: Benazir Bhutto: Osama Bin Laden is Dead – Patrick J. Buchanan

  Bhutto died two months after this interview. She mentions Bin Laden’s death in passing.  If it is true that he is dead, I guarantee you support for the war in Afghanistan would plummet.

• Police Shoot and Kill Man Outside Hotel in Times Square – City Room Blog – NYTimes.com

Distraction of the Day: Rap and manga: new roads to Nirvana in Japan

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