21 September 2006

  • New York's currently: signed up for autumn
  • Iran President Ahmadinejad's big day in New York: spent 40 minutes questioning the Holocaust, no time left to pick up a new blazer.
  • At U.N. address, Chavez refers to Bush as "the devil," gets more laughs than gasps.
  • In pro-democracy "Beirut to Baghdad" speech, Bush stops short on alliteration opportunity, leaves out "Bangkok."
  • New leaders in Thailand shut down political parties, impose a year of transition.
  • An estimated 15,000 Hungarians surround the parliament building, demanding the removal of the prime minister; at least three Hungarians try to register the same website.
  • "Yesterday, we narrowed it to California. Today, we narrowed it to three counties. We're hoping to narrow it down to a field and... to a spinach leaf."
  • At 37, Boghosian has become one of the nation's most esteemed and creative practitioners of extreme fair food.
  • Recording the sounds of the underground for a new MTA model subway train.
  • In Digest, Andrew Womack on the week in Mp3s.
  • Woman, 84, kept past as concentration camp guard secret, even from her German Jewish husband, now expelled from U.S.
  • Adopted West Virginian discovers she's an African Princess, for real.
  • Four draft beers does not excuse, or even explain, panda hugging or biting.
  • Felony animal torture--a.k.a. decapitating your girlfriend's kitten--gets you two years in the slammer.
  • Is breakfast the most important meal? Clinical psychologists, neuroscientists, and professors of nutrition, food studies, and public health simply can't agree.
  • Human stem cells: help restore vision in blind rats, improve cardiac function after a heart attack.
  • Comparing the many offspring of Gervais: The Office (UK), The Office (U.S.), Le Bureau, and Stromberg.
  • Choose: Not Your Daughter's Jeans or Mom Jeans (video).
  • Deadline for applications is tomorrow! Want to be our intern? Apply now!
  • Video: The Spotnicks, Swedish surf rock.
  • Sam Brown's Powerbook: hard to kill.