10 June 2004

  • New York's currently: eight million complaints about the air-conditioning
  • Iraqi government commits to interim constitution providing Kurdish veto power, but Shiite leaders vow to excise the clause next year.
  • New poll: Uncertainty over the general direction of the country shifts U.S. voter support to Kerry.
  • European elections begin today; in response to Blair's Iraq stance, Labour predicts a third-place finish in local councils.
  • Violating both Geneva Conventions and patient confidentiality, interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were given access to prisoner medical records.
  • New Ken Burns documentary about the first American road trip.
  • Through notebook doodlings, diary entries, and recollections, a fascinating history of being a teenager in the sixties.
  • Now if they only had an InstaBookAdvance… Go from Word doc to bound paperback with the instant book-printing machine.
  • Kerry wanted to delay accepting his nomination so he could continue raising campaign money. So what?
  • The construction and reconstruction of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
  • Photo of striking daycare workers walking across the Brooklyn Bridge.
  • Ten foods you should never eat.
  • Finding a perfect steak at New York strip clubs. And: The same, down Austin way.
  • Urban planning worst-case scenarios. [via things]
  • Susan Orlean recalls a getaway to a "mountain chalet" that was really "a dingy A-frame, mud-brown, damp, afflicted with an air of unrelieved gloom" in the suburbs.
  • Frequently asked questions at the Museum of Funeral Customs
  • New York disaster-moviegoers have nothing to fear, say scientists, we're only halfway through our warming cycle.
  • Maud Newton interviews Brigid Hughes of the Paris Review on new writers (good) and slush piles (also good).