14 December 2005

  • New York's currently: needing a little something right this very minute, but it's not Christmas
  • Pentagon to spend $300 million placing pro-American messages in foreign media without disclosing the source.
  • Iranian president calls the Holocaust "a myth."
  • Opportunists dig for frequent flier miles in Wendy's dumpsters, and then resell them on eBay.
  • Finding high torture counts, U.S. pledges to inspect hundreds more of Iraqi-run jails.
  • Op: Multiculturalism can work if all citizens have something to prize about their society.
  • Hartford high school students fined $103 by cops every time they curse in school.
  • Poll shows Iraqis are optimistic about their futures, but want the U.S. and allied troops out quick.
  • Sunnis expected to vote in big numbers during tomorrow's parliamentary elections; fight for seats seen as particularly fierce.
  • Iraqi police seize thousands of forged ballots on their way in from Iran; tomorrow's election in Iraq is enormous for the U.S. as well.
  • Live air traffic control feeds, including JFK tower.
  • India's high-tech capital, Bangalore, aka "the town of boiled beans," considers a name change.
  • Philip Roth describes the ideal world: readers can be alone with their books, and anyone participating in book talk can be shot.
  • Questions for the chest waxer from 40-Year-Old Virgin.
  • "Viper" teams of uniformed cops and undercover air marshals to begin covering non-air transit systems.
  • Boning Park. Upper East Side. MoMA. Names of residential high-rises constructed recently in Beijing.
  • Dylan to DJ weekly music show on XM Radio beginning March.
  • Differences between American and Japanese emoticons.
  • Video: Rakim on Eminem.