17 June 2005

  • New York's currently: up to its neck in checkboxes
  • U.S. nauseatingly dilutes global-warming language in G-8 climate plan.
  • Iran goes to the polls, affronting true democracy.
  • Heart drug for African Americans approved by Federal health advisers.
  • TMN editors' wish to know more about North Korea's nuclear ambitions foiled by global news quake.
  • Everything that can go wrong listed.
  • New York Public Library launches digital audio books; search library here.
  • Petition to protect gay penguins from "organized and coercive harrassment by means of feminine seductive arts."
  • High school with 44 valedictorians accused of grade inflation.
  • African children imported into the U.K. for torture, slavery, sex.
  • Where do red tides come from?
  • Foetry: Exposing fraudulent poetry "contests", and earning its master hatred from major names in the poetry world.
  • Kodak to stop making black-and-white photographic paper.
  • Wireless technology supports working longer hours.
  • Maps of publicly installed surveillance cameras in New York City.
  • 'Wonderwall'--that's virtually every bird between the ages of 30 and 36's favourite fucking song. Noel Gallagher on how to write an Oasis song.
  • Where can you buy Canadian food products in Hong Kong?
  • Reading back with great enjoyment as Edmund Wilson tears into his friend Nabokov's translation of Pushkin.
  • Op: Why not treat stars like CEOs and tax celebrity?
  • George Mitchell and Newt Gingrich's recommendations for the U.N., as endorsed by the Times.
  • French recipes for dinner on Mars.