18 August 2006

  • New York's currently: inventing a pork-chop salad
  • Federal court rules the NSA's warrantless surveillance program is unconstitutional.
  • France to only contribute 200 additional troops to southern Lebanon, despite Security Council's need for 13,000.
  • Israel concerned that countries which don't acknowledge its right to exist are volunteering troops for Lebanon duty.
  • U.S. blocked Iranian cargo plane last month from delivering missiles to Hezbollah.
  • The final "Today's Papers" dispatch from the great Umansky.
  • Facial gestures you should no longer display at airports.
  • Cujo, killed.
  • IRS crackdown ensures Academy Award guests will be held responsible for taxes on the $100,000+ in swag they receive.
  • South Korea's nasty and sometimes deadly electronic grapevine.
  • Loose copyright laws and randy women means Japanese doujinshi, self-published fan fiction, is a hit.
  • Interior decorating you just don't have the guts to do.
  • Op: If you can be arrested for having your papers out of order, the U.S. may be an Eastern Bloc country.
  • Country music star Montgomery Gentry accused of illegally purchasing, penning, killing, and videotaping bear.
  • Wal-Mart's image-ambassador is down on the Jews, Koreans, Arabs.
  • Mailbag: Kevin Guilfoile responds to a mistaken Bruce Spingsteen sighting.
  • In case you thought Charade was phooey, those rare Hawaiian stamps are extremely valuable.
  • We consider that the ad is in danger of implying that the drink may bring sexual/social success. Advice from a wet-blanket copy editor.
  • Man almost done running 50 marathons in all 50 states in 50 days to raise awareness for Katrina victims.
  • Video: The 10 stages of the Illness Communication Exaggeration Curve.
  • Writer Will Self has a Post-It note problem; every year this guy convinces his friends to dig a hole.
  • In today's Digest, Sarah Hepola on the week in videos.
  • Photos of things destroyed at high speed.
  • I know one of the guys; he used to do the UPS delivery route on State Street. The murky origins of The Onion's men on the street.