17 November 2004
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: sincerely high-fiving dude with "Kill Your Television" bumper sticker
U.S. and Iraqi troops race to retake Mosul, the first step in a counter-insurgency plan that will only get harder.
Condoleeza Rice picked to succeed Colin Powell as secretary of state.
Video of slain woman believed to show Margaret Hassan; Video of marine killing unarmed insurgent gets wide play on Arab TV.
I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. But I want to have a sense of accomplishment. Interviews with New Yorkers who enlisted in the Army last week.
Chinese apology for errant nuclear sub said to mollify the Japanese.
Op: North Korea remains the least accessible, least understood, and potentially most dangerous of the world's countries of concern.
Bureaucrats battle over CIA's future with anonymous page-one leaks.
Video: The Beatles and Jay-Z mashed up once again, but this time John breakdances.
Interview with Smoosh, a sisters-singing act that opened for Pearl Jam, with a few of their songs.
History of the many times Atlantis has been discovered.
Using the internet and ranches: You can watch John Cleese goof solo (go here), or you can shoot animals with your mouse (go here).
Round-up of cooking magazines' Thanksgiving issues finds oodles of dreck, bad advice, overrefined editors.
Very neurotic and tends to chew tobacco and spit in a cup while lecturing. Students review Professor David Foster Wallace.
Trial exposes spammers' methods.
TMN's Danny Gregory goes on a drawing trip to the Met.
Consider The Incredibles as an example of living in a spacey age of great design. [ via things ]
Video: Encode your angry emails with pleasant punctuation.