Monday Linkage

If it ain't one thing, it's another.

Taliban militants attack Afghan capital; 5 killed

DJ condemned for playing Van Halen's Jump as woman leaps from bridge

Exxon spill oil persistence may be explained

Cocaine hidden in 'bite size' chocolate bars

New York Times: Review of Jet Bomb Plot Shows More Missed Clues Worried about possible terrorist attacks over the Christmas holiday, President Obama met on Dec. 22 with top officials of the C.I.A., F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security, who ticked off a list of possible plots against the United States and how their agencies were working to disrupt them.

Brit arrested for Twitter terror joke

Junk inspires wonder in young imaginations

How siblings have just as much influence as parents on a child's behaviour

Story of Newton's encounter with apple goes online

Times of London: Pope gunman Mehmet Ali Agca released from prison in Turkey Mehmet Ali Agca, the gunman who tried to kill pope John Paul II in 1981, has been released from prison in Turkey after almost three decades behind bars.