13 August 2003

  • New York's currently: a haunted carnival
  • Heat wave in Paris has killed 100 in the past eight days. Related: Bodies left unburied in heat-stricken Paris, while a quarter of France's nuclear power stations are shut down.
  • Julie Powell, Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and where it's all been recorded.
  • Bloomberg denies trash pileup, says he will clean it up anyway.
  • Rebuilding Iraq to require 'staggering' sums, says L. Paul Bremer, American administrator.
  • Gigli pulled in three people per theater this past weekend.
  • Mel Gibson gets an apology.
  • Fascinating: Jesus Jones frontman Mike Edwards on the myth of 'selling out.'
  • Unabomber wants U.S. government to return pipe bomb and other materials it seized from his cabin.
  • The obesity epidemic: Nearly one-million overweight U.S. teenagers suffer from a 'metabolic syndrome' that makes them unusually prone to diabetes and heart disease.
  • What's more, Kathy thinks the CDs belong to a man in his mid- to late-thirties who might live around the neighborhood. Hank Stuever, 'The Case of the Found CDs'
  • Florida millionaire leads double life.
  • Three lost boaters wander onto runway at JFK.
  • How insects walk on water.
  • 'This skipping and all that stuff – I'm not used to seeing that stuff,' he said. Flash mobs start in Austin.
  • Japan's best-paid masturbator.
  • Google has a calculator that can figure out some pretty difficult numbers.
  • Hong Kong clothing chain removes Nazi-themed clothing from its stores, Coca-Cola comes under fire for swastika-adorned robot.
  • Brilliant, full-screen Quicktime VRs of New York City.
  • Random Interest: The Will Smiths, The Beat is Murder. Choosing the right pasta shape. Floral radiographs. [via you grow girl] Contact lenses cannot really go behind your eye. Small Wonder clips. Vaudeville slang. Countries that no longer exist.
  • Petition to stop God.