15 July 2004

  • New York's currently: post-monsoon sunshine
  • State Department analysts found dozens of misleading conclusions in Powell U.N. speech, drafts of which came from the Cheney office. [PDF of report]
  • With four countries gone and four about to leave, the international coalition in Iraq is steadily dismantling.
  • Police Department figures out where to stow demonstrators during the Republican National Convention.
  • He told investigators he had no idea how many laws he broke during a three-day excursion that took him 300 miles from home.  Delaware student regrets eating hallucinogenic mushrooms.
  • While the Senate blocked the proposal for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, the Senators, gay and straight alike, threatened to out each other.
  • Sadr militia said to be rearming in Iraq with the help of Iranian agents.
  • Pentagon says the threat of attack means it needs to shut down its daycare; parents think they really want to install a helipad.
  • Man starts successful business cleaning up the leftovers from crime scenes.
  • Already under scrutiny, suspicion, Florida readies its brand-new touch-screen voting machines.
  • "'Jumbo' strictly refers to Boeing 747. No other planes are called 'Jumbo Jets.'" The words we thought we knew and the ways we misuse them.
  • Flash: Paste together a G.W.B. speech, then watch him say it.
  • "To the Court's knowledge, there is no Mattel line of 'S&M Barbie '."
  • Play Pac-Man on a Mondrian: Pac-Mondrian.
  • A young man in the Congolese jungle wears a T-shirt that pleads: "Beam me up, Scotty." How discarded clothes from the West make their way to poor communities in Africa.
  • 1974 interview decides Brian Eno not popular with Texas oilmen but with their sons.