19 September 2005

  • New York's currently: pouffy-haired non-stop
  • North Korea pledges to end its nuclear weapons program, U.S. agrees to respect its sovereignty.
  • One billion dollars plundered from Iraq's defense ministry.
  • Millions of Afghans voted in the country's first free legislative elections in more than 25 years.
  • Both Merkel and Schröder claim chancellorship after neither won a majority in the German election.
  • Within five minutes, the carpet started to erupt. Man builds up 30,000 volts of static electricity.
  • Iran's President does what U.S. pressure/diplomacy could not: unites the world against him.
  • Solutions for managing queues in international theme park design.
  • Salary guide for plenty of known New Yorkers.
  • Op: White people have a hard time believing blacks are just like them.
  • Pace of another storm has federal government urging slow return to New Orleans.
  • Newspaper design used to be big, bold and beautiful--what happened?
  • Even kids cannot stand life unless they have a drink. Lager-style soda Kidsbeer exported from Japan.
  • U.S. military claims gains against Zarqawi using body counts, though by that standard Zarqawi is probably winning.
  • Did the Penn State marching band have a good time on the Marc Jacobs runway? Yes.
  • Summary of imbalances in the world economy.
  • The bestseller lists of the past 50 years are a somber graveyard of dead books. Carlos Fuentes on the saving grace of literature.
  • Complicated variations on rock, paper, scissors.
  • Floodweiser--jocular name for water distributed in cans by Anheuser-Busch--and other new words from the fringes of English.
  • How to spot a drunken Saville Row tailor.