1 July 2005

New York's currently: having a hot summer, but definitely not in a 1968-in-Germany kind of way

note: TMN will be manning the grill on Monday, keeping things black and blue

Blair may snub Bush on global warming at G-8. After all, he backs the protesters.

White House claims success in treating 20,000 AIDS patients in Botswana; actual number: zero.

Downing Street memo says the U.S. was bombing Iraq in summer 2002 to provoke a retaliation, a secret war, as it were.

As prices rise, so do occurrences of drive-away gas theft.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression. Brooke Shields responds to Tom Cruise.

A9 street maps offer panoramic street photos of New York.

Alternatives to a bland cheese course.

Gerhard Schroeder loses confidence vote in parliament--as he intended--so early elections can be called (why? you ask).

Details on New York's 4th of July fireworks.

How to create a post-it note mosaic.

Depictions of the lives of doctors or lawyers should be much more complex and insightful regarding contemporary life than continual depictions of farmers. On the absence of urban literature in China.

Weed candy banned in Chicago, despite legality of ingredients.

Israelis shut down main Jewish settlement block in Gaza Strip.

Op: Settler violence, enacted by the flesh of religious Zionism, isn't worth your sympathy.

Aerospace photographs by Steffen Jahn.

Iranian guests upset Belgian politicians by refusing to shake women's hands or have lunch where alcohol's served.

Front pages of newspapers from around the world.

Because it's Friday: Courtney Cox's, erm, rear.