20 June 2005

  • New York's currently: black and white and read all over
  • Israel agrees to vacate Gaza Strip settlements; Palestinians agree to dismantle their abandoned homes.
  • The credit-card company that lost all your data wasn't supposed to have it in the first place.
  • Suicide bomber kills at least 23 on Sunday in Baghdad restaurant blast; 20 Iraqi police killed by suicide car bomber at northern Iraq HQ.
  • The government coverup of a study that revealed how a childhood vaccine caused autism in thousands.
  • See what's new at TMN in today's letter from the editors.
  • Lebanese voters choose anti-Syrian bloc--whose leader is the son of the slain PM.
  • The legacy of passing the comics pen from parent to child.
  • Pairing wine and cheeseburgers.
  • Inside the Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street, where the clocks stopped on Sept. 11.
  • This week, watch the "moon illusion"--see locations, times, and how it works.
  • Robot L train set to ride, and nobody seems to like what that means for the humans among us.
  • The theme of this one appears to be "Fuck Japan!" Children's drawings in the Korean subway.
  • For a little under $8,000, own an entire library of Penguin Classics. (If those spines were still orange, you could catch a tan off your bookshelves.)
  • Medical recall on internal heart defibrillators means patients must choose whether to undergo potentially risky surgeries.
  • Archiving the Nation of Ulysses's zine: Ulysses Speaks.
  • The easiest way to finally get down to understanding genes--and see what color eyes your children will have when you select a British celebrity for your mate.
  • Note: Do not squirt water on Tom Cruise.