22 September 2006

  • New York's currently: designing a "More Ram Horn" T-shirt
  • President and dissident Republicans agree they've come to an incredibly confusing pact on interrogation rules.
  • Abbas says planned Palestinian unity government will recognize Israel, and Hamas says, um, no.
  • Chomsky not offended Venezuela's Hugo Chávez thinks he's dead.
  • Stanford professor lands plan to kill the electoral college on Schwarzenegger's desk.
  • Instead of 20 students, as she expected, more than 600 signed up for classes. Chinese language instruction takes off in Latin America as Beijing invests abroad.
  • What in-flight announcements would sound like if they were true.
  • Georgia mayor apologizes for allowing police officers to eat bananas during a civil-rights march.
  • Since you wondering: How to make a 3D model of Fayetteville.
  • Oral history, with audio samples, of Austin's Scratch Acid.
  • Confectionary connoisseur selects his favorite sweets-related library source materials.
  • How to trick your kids into eating squash.
  • What it's like to have your restaurant reviewed by the Times--installment one, two, three.
  • The weekend in NYC: Elliott Sharp in the Silo tonight; tomorrow, the "Traveling Dime Museum"; Rebecca Gates at the Knit on Sunday (and so much more!).
  • Viva Arecibo! User reviews of the best Brooklyn car services.
  • Extremely small scale models of cities.
  • Sarah Hepola in today's Digest on the best of this week's web videos.
  • Remembering The Great Rose Bowl Hoax (among the top 10 college pranks of all time).
  • Fall issues of Democracy Journal, The New Criterion, The Believer.
  • Close-up shots of the woman's neck and mouth are interspersed with images of fireworks and spraying water. McDonald's tells Chinese customers beef is sexy.
  • A theoretical approach to cutting in line.
  • Last day for geniuses, vagabonds, editorial pirates to apply for TMN's fall intern position.
  • Homophobes worried Fox has turned gay.
  • I guess it's nice to see diversity. Hot pink Park Slope brownstone frustrates neighbors.
  • Family drains savings so artist son can recreate the Sistine Chapel's ceiling with spray paint.