10 November 2006

  • Ann Coulter alleged to have voted in the wrong Palm Beach precinct to avoid acknowledging her address.
  • Tungsten addicts--as in, everyone--should hope China never stops exporting.
  • Libel tourism: When wealthy foreigners sue American writers and publishers in England.
  • Your favorite Flak Magazine, now available as Flak radio.
  • It's very bad news when robots think human flesh tastes like bacon.
  • NASA says to Mars Global Surveyor, phone home!
  • Google correctly diagnoses disease 58 percent of the time.
  • Nebraska cops arrest wrong girl, but you do have to admit they look pretty similar.
  • Video: Dangerous Chinese fish can leap eight feet out of water.
  • Veteran 60 Minutes reporter Ed Bradley dead at 65 from leukemia (see highlight reel).
  • Ed Bradley deserves the worst obit opening line penned in recent memory?
  • British intelligence says it knows of 30 current terror plots.
  • Pleasure cruise probably doesn't explain why an empty North Korean cargo ship was heading to Iran.
  • Evidence mounts that Sudan is remobilizing Arab militias against people in Darfur.
  • Congress now rests in Democrats' hands.
  • And John Bolton's chances for staying on as U.N. ambassador died as soon as the Dems put down the bubbly.
  • Voters knowingly chose dead candidate over Republican incumbent.
  • Topics for Democrats: our bungled election system, or tracking down the missing $9b in Iraq.
  • David Byrne on the bully-and-greed culture that's been taught to us by Bush and Cheney.
  • For $34m, Citigroup buys naming rights to Boston's Wang Center (where the ballet wasn't all that good anyway).
  • Slideshow of Boston artist Rosamond Purcell's repurposing.
  • Sarah Hepola in today's Digest on the best (of Brad Pitt) in this week's web videos.
  • The guide to bidding at a New York auction house.
  • Op: Forget worrying about "access to art"--you can take meat to a museum, but can you make it think?
  • Two of Borat's frat friends--John Doe 1, John Doe 2--sue after seeing themselves plastered on the big screen.
  • How to talk to a climate skeptic.
  • Australia proposes showering with hollow water, Japan proposes shopping with bras.
  • Indian city uses eunuchs--who refuse to leave until they've got their money--to collect taxes.
  • "Misogamy" doesn't mean what "Doctor Jon" thinks it means at his sexy-nurse restaurant.
  • Landscapers become "accidental crusaders for Christ" after refusing to work with gays.
  • Tired of shooting a bird, then seasoning it, then cooking it? Cut out the middle man!
  • To some young Marines in Iraq, the response to Rumsfeld's resignation is, "Who's Rumsfeld?"
  • Songs to help you celebrate Rumsfeld's resignation, so get dancing.
  • Growing up in Thomas Hardy's birthplace isn't all it's cracked up to be.
  • Fifteen-episode "the making of" podcast to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pet Sounds.
  • Clearance sale on Scott Rench's "computers and clay" ceramics (see how he works).
  • Pumice raft party this weekend! (Photos!)
  • Photographs of products that have expired.