13 February 2003

  • New York's currently: not anxious at all, no not one bit great thanks
  • One: Weapons inspectors find an Iraqi ballistic missile program violates U.N. mandates prohibiting Iraq from building missiles.
  • Two: International Atomic Agency sends North Korea's nuclear missile program to the U.N. Security Council.
  • Three: India tests cruise missile, freaks out Pakistan.
  • Love this: In retaliation to France's stance against war, Republicans want Evian and Perrier banned, plus 'bright orange warning labels' on French wines.
  • New Yorkers worry about terrorism, but most (we're guessing) didn't buy the duct tape.
  • Video of a crab being sucked into a pipe. Related: Dictionary of sea terms.
  • Hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from city foundation that received rebates from tobacco companies for cigarettes bought with public money and sold to inmates at Rikers Island.
  • The Onion: Who could you take in a fight? Steven Wright: One of my nephews. O: Are they older or younger than you? SW: He's 6. The Onion asks, Who could you take in a fight?
  • Nelson Mandela paints and sells pictures of his 27 years in prison on Robben Island.
  • Stamp collecting is can be gay.
  • Amanda Hesser on how to dine right for Valentine's Day, while subtly suggesting you should stay home.
  • TV show featuring a Chinese artist eating a stillborn baby doesn't go over well in the U.K.
  • Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
  • Do not purchase a car from the government previously owned by drug dealers, who may have stashed 38 pounds of weed in the back.
  • Simpsons writers list their favorite episodes, all but two pre-1997.