20 January 2006

  • New York's currently: trusting only Google for its porn searching needs
  • Bin Laden tape threatens new attacks against U.S., quotes opinion polls, offers truce to American people.
  • White House rejects truce, apparently forgetting it was offered to us, not them--yeesh.
  • Lengthy analysis from Justice Department shows domestic eavesdropping is absolutely legal.
  • Bush administration wants info from Google on America's porn searching habits--Google says no.
  • Wilson Pickett--"In the Midnight Hour," "Mustang Sally," "Land of 1000 Dances"--dies, age 64.
  • David Foster Wallace on how to record footnotes.
  • Further evidence that, without a sex scandal, nobody cares what's going on in Washington.
  • Republican National Committee to vote in opposition to Bush's guest-worker policy--they don't ever do this kind of thing, by the way.
  • Would France consider using nuclear weapons against terrorists? Hell oui.
  • Video: New Honda commercial pretty much like what would happen if that guy from Police Academy joined Rockapella. With equally unpleasant results.
  • When TV news won't cover the stories they want, news stars head over to NPR.
  • Nominate your favorite novels for the 2006 Morning News Tournament of Books!
  • The real difference between men and women: Men love to see just deserts.
  • Video: Ever-growing collection of duo's performances of Backstreet Boys covers in a Chinese men's dorm.
  • Iceland is totally over gasoline.
  • Beer companies worried that nobody drinks beer anymore, cite liquor companies as "the enemy."
  • Why, medically speaking, taking up cigarettes was a bad move for that woman who just received the face transplant.
  • Chinese nannies suddenly very popular for couples who hope for bilingual babies.
  • Edgar Allan Poe has a secret admirer.
  • Whoa, that's heavy: "The most comprehensive guide to Back to the Future filming locations on the internet."