14 September 2006

  • New York's currently: pronouncing "two" with a Baltimore accent
  • Arctic ice has declined sharply, 2006 was the hottest American summer since 1936, and though private and state-level initiatives receive applause, the U.S. is still deaf to global warming.
  • It may already be too late. Bin Laden has evolved into more of a symbol than an operator. The hunt for Bin Laden.
  • Republicans debut bill to build 700 miles of fencing along the border with Mexico.
  • Former Texas governor Ann Richards dies at 73.
  • First woman with bionic arm "can peel a banana in a less simian posture."
  • Guide to be distributed explains which drugs work best for which types of people, genetically.
  • Is it fair for customers to order a "ghetto-latte" (using free milk instead of paying big bucks)? Starbucks baristas respond.
  • Pathetic motorways around the U.K.
  • Guide to the titles in this season's The Wire. (But are you sick yet of all the preening journalists who love it more than you?)
  • The life (at least, it seems so) of Chicago homicide police.
  • Terrifying interviews with Darfuri refugees.
  • Young, impressionable, caffeinated geniuses: TMN is casting for the role of "Fall Intern."
  • Releasing--and killing--pigeons doesn't sound like the best way to protest Nazis.
  • TMN's Paul Ford realized, not long ago, that his age of deep feelings has passed.
  • Food bloggers list what you should find a way to eat before you die (as though you needed a reason to chow on jerk chicken).
  • 50,000 images of cable news reporters; see also really bad tattoos, i.e., Clay Aiken.
  • New York voting machines not only hate Republicans, they hate Democrats, too.
  • Fifty-nine percent of employees are "disengaged," and another 14 percent are "actively disengaged."
  • Movies used to decide whether Satan is good or evil.
  • New film Keeping Mum, written by Richard Russo, remarkably puts Rowan Atkinson and Patrick Swayze on the same screen.
  • Ghostwriter takes creative liberties with Paul Reiser's life.