19 May 2006

  • New York's currently: constantly calibrating for marginally better outcomes
  • Egypt resumes repression; State department "deeply troubled"; Bush hosts secret visit by Mubarak's son.
  • Iraq's middle class doing everything it can to flee.
  • Now that access is reduced to the minimum required, inspectors have few tools to gauge Iran's nuke program.
  • Senate votes English as the "national language."
  • Even Joseph Gannascoli doesn't know how GaVito dies, but he'd like to keep paying his mortgage.
  • Light-blocking smog over Indian Ocean suppresses global warming--what happens if the air gets cleaned up?
  • Forests disappearing from the roof of the world.
  • Today in TMN's new Digest feature: Videos of the Week.
  • U.S. should close any secret "war on terror" detention facilities, plus Guantanamo, says U.N.
  • Novelist thinks people shrug 10 times more than they actually do.
  • Airline ticket stub, nabbed from trash can, reveals wild amount of passenger info in 15 minutes.
  • Alexandria, Egypt has the world's worst theme park, Fantazy Land.
  • McCartney and wife blame media for divorce; CNN effectively proves their point.
  • Video: Game shows are better played in libraries.
  • Decade by decade, the history of Archie comics shows a strong dislike for teen culture.
  • Research suggests early humans got busy with chimps; some scientists have trouble imagining the coupling.
  • Russian mothers prefer lack of second child to cash.
  • Insider's report from last night's NYC Beard & Moustache Championship.
  • Report with pictures from the third Dashanzi International Art Festival in Beijing.
  • Heroic computer dies to save world from master's thesis.
  • 4,512 Ph.D. students died to make blog about synthesis.
  • Oak Island Treasure is dedicated to those who have lost their lives in the search for the elusive treasure of the Money Pit.
  • Chef Masayoshi "Masa" Takayama tests 10 Santoku knives straight from the box.
  • Video: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments.