1 April 2004

  • New York's currently: just fooling around
  • Fallujah killings, mutilations by civilians show --graphically --that violence in Iraq is not simply the work of foreigners, Islamic militants, as claimed before. Today: Military convoy attacked.
  • Disturbing images: Photos, video of the Fallujah burnings echo Mogadishu.
  • 51 Mexicans on death row in the U.S. have been denied consular assistance.
  • Candace Parker becomes first woman to win High School All-American Slam Dunk contest.
  • A timeline of Albany's 20 straight late budgets.
  • 'The threats and problems of today and the day after, not the world of yesterday' Insight into a vast refocusing before and after: Condoleezza Rice's scheduled speech on Sept. 11, 2001, on missile defense, not terrorism.
  • Whether you missed it or not, recycling is back in New York City, and there's a good chance you hadn't noticed.
  • Reshuffling in the French Cabinet has everybody working everybody else's jobs.
  • Pentagon staff member visits Starbucks near Rumsfeld's house, leaves behind notes regarding Clarke stance.
  • The response to 'Dr. Livingstone, I presume?' and other first-person historical accounts.
  • GOP wants rail service in New York to stop when Bush accepts party nomination at Madison Square Garden.
  • New technology: Beaming messages to your fellow soldier or, say, a shopper browsing some lunch meat.
  • Despite the posturing, W. is no true cowboy, and it's a proven fact.
  • A two-foot-long stuffed coelacanth and other priceless items in the U.N. art collection.
  • Recipe for icebox rolls in April issue of Southern Living deemed unsafe, magazine offers a corrected, less flammable version.
  • Always a favorite in the lab, the rat has its genome successfully mapped.
  • The Museum of Hoaxes April Fool's Day gallery. [via things]
  • The Yankee, the backwoodsman, and the minstrel no more: Finding new characters for Constance Rourke's classic American archetypes.