12 September 2002

New York's currently: windblown

Bush to tell U.N. today to require Iraq's destruction of weapon facilties, or U.S. will do it alone. Secretary General Annan to tell Bush, do it through the U.N. or don't do it at all (Annan's pre-released speech excerpts). Related: Mandela calls U.S. involvement in the Middle East a threat to world peace, also calls Cheney a dinosaur, recalls how the Vice President was opposed to Mandela's release from prison.

Wondering why no one called yesterday? It's because the telemarketers were respecting your privacy.

Yesterday's heavy winds in New York killed one, a fisherman, and injured dozens.

Man challenges 72-year-old Buzz Aldrin to swear on a Bible that he actually walked on the moon. Buzz Aldrin punches man in face, flees scene.

Winning numbers for yesterday's New York Lottery are 9-1-1.

Dartmouth, where people pronounce email as blitz, has an enviable wireless network.

You've got your burrito-rice, your bologna-cheese...more pictures of school lunch than you can stomach. [via mp]

A horse baared don't look him the tooth. Amusing language battle between English as She is Spoke and Babelfish.

Just found: David Sedaris's reaction to Sept. 11 last year.

You know, I once attacked J Edgar Hoover on television in 1959 when he was still director of the FBI. I said he'd done more damage to America than Joseph Stalin. Years later, under the Freedom of Information Act, I obtained my FBI file and 80 pages of it were devoted to my remarks on that one TV show. Most of the FBI comments were on the order of: 'Oh well, Mailer is just an arrogant fool.' Yet the fact is, no matter how angry those people were, they didn't take me off in chains. Interview with Norman Mailer re: Sept. 11.