17 February 2006

  • New York's currently: reverting to its natural state
  • Interior Ministry-sanctioned death squads confirmed in Iraq, stopped by highway patrol on their way to an execution.
  • Mudslide in Philippines leaves 1,500 missing.
  • If the White House and Senate Republicans decide they'd rather not hold an inquiry on warrantless wiretapping, then that's just what's going to happen--nothing at all.
  • How to trust your government, bury your dead.
  • Justice in Rwandan genocide proves difficult, as many accused commit suicide before they can face charges.
  • Hunt for show whippet at JFK dwindles after helicopter search turns up nothing.
  • You could imagine great armadas of icebergs breaking off Greenland and melting as they float south. And, of course, huge areas being flooded.
  • Movies that are "inspired by a true story" are sometimes that, except when a better story presents itself.
  • Study links caloric intake, apple peels to heart age.
  • How to explain to your kids why you wrote the books you wrote.
  • The distance between winning an Olympic event and receiving a medal can be pretty far. And: Can you really bite into a gold medal?
  • Then Top Ten Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed.
  • Matthew Baldwin witnesses a plot gone wrong while in line at the drugstore.
  • Between the Squibs dives into the New Yorker DVD, finds pearls.
  • Video: Everybody loves Django.
  • Consolation/commiseration if you're having trouble learning Chinese.
  • The Ricky Gervais podcast sets a Guinness record.
  • Virginia cops nabbing prostitutes using the "full-contact method."
  • Find out what the bands stopping in your town sound like.
  • Real-life M*A*S*H shut down.