The birth of criminal profiling
The New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell–of whom I know nothing–has an excellent piece up on the magazine’s website about the origins of criminal profiling, and how it may or may not have led to the capture of a pipe bomber in 1950s New York.

SAT OCT. 20: PIPE BOMB! by DANIEL DEBOOM
Tues | Oct 16 Yesterday, we put the Best of Long Beach issue together inside a studio apartment in Bluff Heights, where we were joined by a desktop printer, one pizza, four laptops, a highlighter and two cats. This is all very unusual, of course . . . [...]

Halloween comes early this year

How afraid do you want to be?
The Press-Telegram promotes its annual Halloween scary story competition on the website–but its scariest online story today has to be the one about a pipe bomb explosion last night at Pine Avenue and Ocean Boulevard. That just gets scarier the more you think about it.