12 December 2005

New York's currently: not in the prescribed spirit

Second Iraqi Ministry jail discovered where prisoners were tortured.

Evidence shows Interior Ministry, relying on Badr and other Shiite militias, is abducting, torturing, and killing Sunnis.

Evening Standards prove doom-and-gloom agenda among headline writers.

Bomb kills prominent anti-Syrian Lebanese MP and journalist; U.N. will have latest report today on killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister.

Extensive criminal network in North Korea produces "supernotes": nearly perfect $100 bills.

Is it even 2006 yet? Virginia Gov. fingered for Democratic presidential ticket.

2005-06 calendar for Live Met Opera Radio Broadcasts, beginning Saturday.

I do not think I will end up in jail. Orhan Pamuk on his trial to begin this Friday and the ugly contradictions behind nationalism.

Richard Pryor dies at 65.

Music industry now attacks sites that publish unlicensed song scores or lyrics.

Are women who sleep with consenting teenage boys truly guilty of abusing them?

Ideas: yawn contagion, touch screens that touch back, the anti-rape condom, and cobblestones are good for you.

Banks hit recently bankrupt with stacks of credit card offers.

Video: Free videos for people with tiny screens. See also, weather information performed daily.

How Mary Poppins came about in light of the author's life behind it.

Coca-Cola to debut Coke Blāk in France, a frothy coffee cola.

For Sesame Street to go global, some puppets got the axe while others were adapted (France now requests more irony).

George R. R. Martin: The best-selling American Tolkien.

List of small press stocking stuffers.

Can Sulzberger, Jr., rally the troops to save his family's Times?

Sparrow that was shot before it could topple millions of dominoes to be memorialized in Rotterdam's Natural History Museum.

Game: Gridlock breeds addiction.