12 July 2006

  • New York's currently: qualifying for super saver shipping if it's the last thing it does
  • White House backtracks on previous position on detainees, retrieves Geneva Conventions from toilet.
  • Indian police comb wrecked train cars, carry out multiple raids in search of clues as to who was behind yesterday's bombing attacks in Mumbai.
  • When public transit anywhere is attacked, it's time for the NYPD to dig in subway riders' bags.
  • In clashes at Israeli-Lebanese border, Hezbollah has captured two Israeli soldiers.
  • Spotting a pile of debris that wasn't there before is how you spot "improvised explosive devices" in Iraq--and it could save your life.
  • Hoping to spark honest political debate, former G.O.P. and Democrat strategists set aside partisan views and... start a website.
  • Colorado judge rules it's a violation of copyright to sell sanitized versions of feature films.
  • One step toward peace in Iraq could be finding out which side the phone dispatchers are on.
  • Discovering they've been included in a federal database of potential terror targets, petting zoo and flea market proprietors channel the mayor from Jaws.
  • Joe Boyd, Rick Moody remember Syd Barrett.
  • How to win at sudoku every time.
  • A history of cheap perfume.
  • The Advice Blender finds stereotypes and fear of disease in advice columns.
  • Why insults that involve your mother are considered the worst.
  • SUV rubbing as art.
  • Do buck teeth and a poor command of English fraud make?
  • Onion columnists are the bold truth tellers we seek.
  • The worst part of global warming: bad wine.
  • Dinosaurs not warm- or cold-blooded, but kind of a nice medium.
  • The research team have also unearthed evidence of a large carnivorous bird dubbed the "demon duck of doom."