22 June 2006

  • New York's currently: trying to tan indoors
  • Congressmen making too much money too close to their earmarked projects have investigators sniffing for corruption.
  • Pentagon distributes 74-page briefing book to Congress offices to show them how to spin the war in Iraq. One way: Say WMDs have been found.
  • Iraq's Interior Ministry reports dozens of factory workers--many thought to be Shiite--were abducted from buses north of Baghdad yesterday.
  • Seven Marines, Navy medical corpsman charged with murder of Iraqi civilian.
  • Teenagers with backpack air monitors prove going outside really is good for you.
  • Summer camp directors ask campers to not blog about sneaking out after lights-out.
  • How the Taliban reemerged, and what's gone wrong in Afghanistan--a checklist.
  • A list of fictional expletives.
  • Photos: Before and after Katrina in southern Mississippi.
  • Ms. Sedaris lives in a small apartment in the West Village with a collection of plaster meats, a few stuffed squirrels, books on skin disorders, some plastic layer cakes...
  • Welcome to the Esther Mason Dinosaur Museum.
  • It's been a messy business since Sneha Philip went missing Sept. 10, 2001 in Lower Manhattan.
  • Hollywood unhappy with 12-minute bootleg version of Oliver Stone's World Trade Center.
  • Al Qaeda reveals identity of 20th hijacker, terrorism expert likens the move to a B-grade crime movie.
  • We're at 450 gay animal species--and still counting.
  • Uncounted members of endangered giant panda species found living in wild, too cute for captivity.
  • "Earworms" are the songs you can't get out of your head; here are the most infectious, and ways to eradicate them.
  • Radiohead fans smoke expensive smelling weed.
  • Home makeover shows would prefer you not display the Rodin.
  • Rowdy Roddy Piper finds out They Live... on the internet.