16 August 2006

New York's currently: flaming manholes

With an unlimited budget flowing from Iran, Hezbollah leads rebuilding in Lebanon.

Iran says it's ready to resume nuclear talks, but that talking about stopping its nuclear program will fall on deaf ears.

Iraqi civilian deaths reached 3,438 in July--the bloodiest month of the war thus far.

In Baghdad, bomb in crowd of day laborers kills eight, wounds 28; fighting flares up in Mosul.

Under a new proposal to change planetary classes, our solar system would lose a planet and gain three "plutons."

NASA can't find the original recording of the first moon landing. (Suuuuure you can't.)

While Manhattanites get a strange maple syrup smell, those in Staten Island and Queens get a strange, nauseating smell.

With ticket sales down at state fairs across the country, organizers cry into their funnel cakes.

Without 9/11, would the London plot have been foiled? Without 9/11, would there have been an Iraq war? Without the Iraq war, would there have been a London plot? What if 9/11 never happened?

Thanks to released AOL searches, we know what we're really looking for: free music and sex. (And free features from the Wall Street Journal, apparently.)

New search engines could rely more on sharing of information than tumbling of algorithms.

"It was goose feather, but now it feels almost like duck." Bird flu hits badminton hard.

In San Diego, federal government takes control of Mount Soledad's 29-foot-tall cross, but that doesn't mean it gets to stay.

What we want to know is why "Ringling beats animals.com" is holding out.

New Lucky Strikes kill, but mostly by depriving you of money you should otherwise be spending on food.

Mp3s: Skeet Spirit, a crunk tribute to Radiohead.

Steely Dan writes Wes Anderson a letter. (More context here.)

Thieves throws feces at man, then pick his pockets while pretending to help him clean up the mess.

"Lack toast and tolerance," "manner from heaven": The Eggcorn Database.