18 March 2004

  • New York's currently: frozen green puddles
  • NATO troops head into Kosovo as violence swells again. Related: The region's history of Serbian-Albanian conflict during the late '90s.
  • Car bomb levels Baghdad hotel, 27 dead.
  • Deeming the U.S. occupation of Iraq a 'fiasco,' Spain's Zapatero calls upon American voters to support Kerry.
  • The 100 most commonly mispronounced words and phrases.
  • Three gay couples to marry today on the steps of City Hall, clergy to preside, as Methodists put lesbian minister on trial.
  • 'In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in Kuwait.' In speech at Reagan presidential library, Dick Cheney criticizes Kerry, draws upon many crowd-pleasing historical references.
  • Gasoline prices soar as global flux, refinery regulations push oil prices to a 13-year high.
  • Not just for slicing off stray fingers anymore: A primer on mandolines.
  • More Water! Frozen! Lots! Mars orbiters confirms ice cap on the planet's south pole. And: With discovery of new planet Sedna, minimum requirements for planet size could downgrade Pluto.
  • After a 21-year, $400 million cleanup, Love Canal declared clean and is removed from the Superfund list.
  • Majella O'Shaughnassy, a native of County Limerick, yesterday wore an oversized, green foam hat. Celebrating St. Patrick's Month with the Irish in Westchester, while down in the city, revelers promise Guinness to paraders, Bloomberg disputes existence of snow.
  • Fascinating: Computer games and software programmed into the grooves of record albums in the '80s. [via things]
  • Multimillionaire investor/parochial school teacher and Kenyan activist/immigrant son win their parties' Senatorial nominations in Illinois elections.
  • Every number has a little something that makes it special.
  • Watch the movie: Commune with nature in Manhattan through the lens of videographer Tim Hall.
  • Having fun with anti-Americanism in Cairo off-Broadway.