13 April 2007: Afternoon

  • L.A.'s Sugar Shack fights for their mural, or, how to be a hippie in the 21st-century.
  • Mexican drug traffickers resort to medieval tactics, post heads on roadside stakes.
  • It became clear that the number of work-related nailgun injuries had stayed stable since 1998. It was consumer-related injuries that had soared.
  • Rather disturbing: Times reporter acquires an eating disorder, nominally in the name of journalism.
  • "I'm known as Van Girl," she says, "but I've met a lady by the name of Road Bitch, too." Women on life as a roadie.
  • Calling aspiring models: Clay Risen takes the Non-Expert's desk and offers first steps to the thin life.
  • Kremlin demands return of ex-pat tycoon after he proposes a new Russian Revolution.
  • Pictures of Moscow subway workers; the 100-year-old photo blog.
  • There are sperm in your bones. Unrelated: Mia Farrow makes Steven Spielberg make China make Sudan help Darfur.
  • Is Katie Couric a plagiarizer by proxy? Should the booze age be rolled back?
  • We, too, are vexed by the widespread phenomenon of adolescent girls carrying fluffy pillows onto airplanes.
  • Interracial marriages in U.S. rise from 2 percent of all marriages in 1970 to 7 percent today; Study finds military divorce rates hold steady even after four years of war.
  • Amazon's Easter butt plugs marketing campaign reached wrong audience.
  • Sarah Hepola is the correct audience in today's Digest for Patrick Swayze's dancing video, plus other online hits.
  • Call it apocalyptic, call it a myth. Just don't call it sci-fi.
  • Call it fashion, call it fluff, call it Dress & Suit.