21 August 2006

New York's currently: worth the trouble

With Israel's airlifted raid into Lebanon on Saturday and the U.N. unable to get troops until it defines a mission, the cease-fire in Lebanon is still on shaky ground.

"The country's oil and gas reserves will last a maximum of another 25 or 30 years. Therefore we have to provide other resources." Nuclear talks with Iranians.

After 60 years of secrecy, light is finally shed on P.O. Box 1142, the secret prison in Fairfax County where captured Germans were interrogated.

Non-nude websites for pedophiles thrive in the face of vague laws.

Uri Geller to wrest Elvis's first house from the hands of former California lieutenant governor, even if it means reopening bankruptcy proceedings for the current owners, and have we lost you yet?

George W. Bush also earned the unique distinction of becoming the first president to pardon a cast member of the 1972 Academy Award-nominated movie Deliverance.

The Guardian notices that Americans don't take enough vacations.

This was not sent from my Blackberry.

That's one example of a Federer Moment, and that was merely on TV--and the truth is that TV tennis is to live tennis pretty much as video porn is to the felt reality of human love. DFW on Federer.

Game: Andy Roddick vs. Pong.

The music industry has a new target online: sites that host guitar tabs.

What kills an independent bookstore--plummeting sales or greed?

What right-wingers see when they see the Times.

Video: the world's largest record.

Innovations: mugs for unsteady hands, friendly mouth bacteria, mobile saunas.

In the final moments of transatlantic ocean travel, there was one final tragedy: the sinking of the Andrea Doria.

Scientists say the ocean is getting louder.

MoreWords.com: The antidote to overdoing it on Will Shortz.