13 January 2005

  • New York's currently: five, maybe six full fathoms
  • Supreme Court rules that federal sentencing standards are no longer mandatory.
  • Nations in need of tsunami aid worry that accepting it may harm their standing toward current creditors.
  • Indonesia wants foreign relief workers and military forces out by March 26.
  • What it's like to be an election worker in Iraq.
  • White House confirms that search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is officially over, with nothing found.
  • U.S. government says we're supposed to eat more fruits and vegetables, exercise 30 to 90 minutes a day, and cut out the extra sugar; the Sugar Association disagrees.
  • How clothing sizes shift from retailer to retailer.
  • The Burke Family Grape Nuts commercial. [via things]
  • Learn a little about Esperanto from a tiny green person named Zam, then learn a lot more here and you will like the Esperanto flag.
  • Inmate work crews and the work they do.
  • Learn to play Beatles songs on the ukulele [via cityrag] or just learn the mistakes they made in the first place. [via waxy]
  • Bob Marley's remains to be exhumed in Jamaica and buried in Ethiopia.
  • Send a camera through the mail. Ask postal workers to take photos. Here's what you get back.
  • Thank you for holding, we've been recording you the whole time.
  • Dinosaur bones found inside mammal bones.
  • TMN's Sarah Hepola with a short list of rapper names for when you have a cold.
  • What would happen if an iceberg the size of Long Island collided with a glacier? Watch and see.
  • Video: Everybody wants to see the fuss, and here it is: the Arcade Fire playing live.