12 October 2006

  • Illustrated plans for submarines, from Alexander the Great to the present day.
  • Gambian bumsters take tourist heckling to newly enjoyable levels.
  • Bowers handed the money to a security guard standing in the lobby and told him it was his day to be a hero. Unemployed man robs bank to get jail time.
  • The anatomy of Cheez Wiz.
  • Jose Padilla claims that while in Navy custody interrogators dosed him with a PCP-LSD cocktail.
  • Dutch scientists say that whenever the Earth changes orbit, some species of mammals die out.
  • Thumbelina survives on a cup of grain and handful of hay, served twice a day. Breeder-owners love the world's smallest horse, but not her genes.
  • Find your dead celebrity soulmate.
  • Archeologists plan to test Homer's geography--and perhaps even learn where Odysseus was said to have roamed.
  • Hotel St. George Press announces new readings for Fall.
  • Profile of a "tracker," a campaign videographer who follows the other candidate in hopes of catching a gaffe.
  • Want to make your house smell like Elton John's? Light this rock.
  • How to tell the U.S. didn't clean up too well after accidental bombing of Spain: glow-in-the-dark snails.
  • In Digest, Llewellyn Hinkes considers the legacy of CBGBs, but just for a little while.
  • Single-engine plane crashes on Upper East Side, killing Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor.
  • Everywhere the reaction was the same: sadness mixed with an equally large dose of disbelief that anything so bizarre could actually happen.
  • Op: There wasn't an "axis of evil" before, but there sure is one now.
  • Bush: This is all Clinton's fault.
  • North Korea says if the U.S. continues its "hostile attitude," it will hold more nuclear tests, which, when you think about it, would deplete their nuclear material, so, um...
  • More than anything, North Korea should fear its own collapse--which would suit China just fine.
  • Bush talks suits with reporters, which is better than talking news right now.
  • British court shifts libel law to favor journalists; French parliament rules that denying Armenian genocide is now a crime.
  • Nobody wants to take credit for the statistic that claims a single female cat and her offspring can produce 420,000 cats in just over seven years.
  • Gunmen, arriving in police vehicles, attack Baghdad TV station aimed mainly at Sunni audience.
  • Golddiggers: Get a good look at this grad student, who got rich off PayPal--before he became the third founder of YouTube.
  • Scott Blauvelt is an American with a disability. And that is why Scott Blauvelt walks around naked at work.
  • Superbus comes when you text and gives you your own door.
  • Trent Lott legislates against insurance companies, and many are wondering if he'll stop once he gets reimbursed for the house he lost in Katrina.
  • R.J. Reynolds sees how candy-flavored cigarettes just might appeal to children, agrees to cease their production.
  • Former ATF head accused of forcing employees to cook lunch, help with homework, and build a bathroom.
  • As messages spread from pager to pager overnight, the crowd grew from dozens to hundreds of students early yesterday. Deaf university shuts down amid intrigue.