13 October 2006

  • Now that the Dow is breathing down 12,000's neck, why are we still saving up for new shoes?
  • Italian sociologist to go under his rock and not come out; insert other academics jokes here.
  • McBride cheaper than a Big Mac.
  • Suspicions High Times editors have infiltrated CNN headquarters, implanted stories.
  • Tips for internet snooping on the guy you met last night who's probably not a divorced friendless child molester, but who knows?
  • Homage to Andreas Gursky's "99 Cent Store," as created inside "Grand Theft Auto 4: San Andreas."
  • A Jasper Johns and a Willem de Kooning net $143.5 million for a David Geffen.
  • Vehicles in Tintin comics compared to their real-life counterparts.
  • Nonverbal harassment succeeds with Microsoft's Paint program.
  • Photographers respond: How do you capture the Amish, who believe being photographed violates the second commandment?
  • A photo tour of Pixar Studios.
  • Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, well-known for lending money to the least well-off.
  • Attacks in Baghdad surge again, where you really don't want to be a garbageman.
  • Israeli universities ban Palestinian students; Israeli ambassador to Australia says their countries are white sisters amid "the yellow race."
  • Sacramento's large population of immigrant Slavic evangelicals aren't going to rest until you renounce your gay self.
  • GOP withdraws funds from races it can't win and concentrates on saving seats in Ohio, Missouri, and Tennessee.
  • "Except for my wife and family, that is my favourite photo," said Mr Rumsfeld.
  • Bush has a new word, and it's unacceptable.
  • As he planned, Stephen Colbert has become the sort of audience-wielding TV autocrat he can't stand.
  • Universal Tube and Rollerform Equipment Corp really wishes its website wasn't utube.com.
  • Op: The world's divided into copers and fixers, and concerning Iran, it's a mess we can cope with. (Also, seven questions about The Week of North Korea.)
  • Interactive map shows how Cory Lidle's plane crashed into a building.
  • Ten best blocks in New York City.
  • Alcoholics Anonymous ignored in lieu of scientific approaches on how not to get drunk.
  • You are so beautiful, I can't live without you; I love the way you sparkle. Shopaholicism is a real disorder, and it makes you talk to jewelry.
  • The Big Lebowski Phonetic Alphabet. See also, Mary Worth comic reenacted by fans.
  • Videos of savants; Mp3s from worst comedy album of all time.
  • As part of his financial planning, jobless man robs bank in order to go to jail.
  • Pumpkin recipes, 30 ways to eat a pumpkin, and how to carve a pumpkin in 3-D.
  • Problem: I hate feeling so cold when I get out of the bath. Urawaza: Sucking on an ice cube right before you emerge from a warm bath helps you feel warm longer.
  • Fictitious candidates in your district need help getting elected this fall!
  • Turkey's E.U. bid further complicated by new French law against denying the Armenian genocide.
  • Nobel-winner Pamuk is a postmodern magician, not a political spokesman; "This is not a day for politics for me," he says, though you can bet it is for the never-winning Roth.
  • The mainstay of Auster's literary career is the subject of literary careerism.