10 July 2002

New York's currently: surrounded by rich people

Up to 77,000 tons of nuclear waste to be dumped inside Nevada's Yucca Mountain.

Bush calls for corporate scandals to be exposed, executives to get jail time. Related: The President's take on business ethics seems to change when it's brought home. Related: Mysterious group buys ads attacking Bush, calling him 'sly like a fox' for dismissing his own accounting problems. White House spokeswoman Anne Womack blames the commercials on Carville.

Citizens take on Mr. Softee and the infernal popping weasel.

Vice-president Cheney to be sued for accounting fraud. Related: 1996 promotional video shows Cheney lauding Andersen.

James Thurber was 'real nice,' E.B. White was 'OK;' The Algonquin's new ownership has to transform a trashy hotel with a storied past. Related: We don't like the Algonquin.

Visiting Scot finds genuine Michelangelo in Cooper-Hewitt's storage.

Michael Jackson gets attacked by industry for outselling Elvis and the Beatles, he says.

The manic commercial work of the Traktor group. Related: Beautiful motion work at PSYOP. (thanks ct)

Bizarre, slightly fascinating, ultimately silly PR wrangle between the Observer's Rosenbaum and Yale's Skull & Bones society. Related: The original Observer article the skirmish relates to, including the Neil Simon-worthy initiation chant 'DEATH EQUALS DEATH!'

'I had to be first,' Mitchell explains. 'Its like Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. No matter how many people accomplish the feat afterwards, it will always be Armstrong who will be remembered for doing it first. And, best of all, it was an American.' Florida man sets Pac-Man high score. Related: New Zealand man wows crowd with Jimi Hendrix routine at Air Guitar World Championships. (thanks kevin)

The worst CNN feature graphic ever: a terrorist filling out a form, stacks of money in the foreground, and a social security card with '9/11' emblazoned across it and a jetliner in the center.