20 December 2005

  • New York's currently: hijacking anything that moves
  • New York public transportation shuttered by strike, the first time in 25 years.
  • Related: The union's blog for your comments, the city's "contingency plan" site, and the rideshare board on craigslist.
  • How illegal guns get into New York City.
  • Bush demands senators "feel his passion" about the Patriot Act.
  • Apparently passionately driven to fight terrorism, F.B.I. shown to have been snooping on Greenpeace, Catholic Workers, and P.E.T.A.
  • Early results from Iraqi ballots.
  • City officials want "stop snitching" T-shirts off the streets, but snitches promote crime, violence, and distrust.
  • Stop Snitching, the movie: for entertainment purposes only.
  • Drug companies strike clinical trial gold among India's poor.
  • The headline you can't turn a blind eye to: Knitta, please!
  • Not only is Sinn Fein official revealed to be a spy, but he says Stormontgate has been entirely staged by British intelligence.
  • Six charged in Oslo with stealing Munch's "The Scream."
  • Iran's president bans Western music from radio and TV stations; foreign films that "promote arrogant powers" also prohibited.
  • Lou Reed's photos of New York...are not very good.
  • Using Google instead of your memory will rot your brain.
  • Book bloggers, including our own Birnbaum, review the year in publishing.
  • The best advertising you never got to see.
  • Coudal publishes poems left by voicemail.
  • Philip Pullman: C.S. Lewis wasn't much of a Christian.
  • How to fix mom and dad's--or your spouse's mom and dad's--computer.
  • Schwarzenegger's refusal to grant clemency to "Tookie" Williams inspires Austrian officials to rename Schwarzenegger stadium.
  • Video: The Chronic of Narnia rap.