23 January 2003

New York's currently: shocked Russell got this far

Bush gets anti-environment plan backed as the Senate slashes clean air regulations.

City approves Christo project to install 23 miles of saffron-colored fabric in Central Park.

PBS gets the Web: Two films follow the 1998 investigation of James Byrd, Jr.'s death in Jasper, Texas, after being dragged behind a truck by three whites.

Bush picks Jerry Thacker who calls AIDS the 'gay plague,' to serve on the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV & AIDS. Related: Archive of Thacker's Scepter Institute's live presentations, including 'Help for Homosexuals' with tips on how to convert 'those practicing this deathstyle.'

Condoleeza Rice: Why We Know Iraq is Lying.

Calvin Trillin weighs in on the culinary delights of Wisconsin.

Wireless-Web being installed at Everest base camp.

Introduction to the Voynich Manuscript, the most mysterious manuscript in the world.

Bush touts his economic plan in front of a painted screen of boxes labeled 'Made in U.S.A' while the real boxes hid behind, stamped 'Made in China.'

Archive of Heston Blumenthal columns, including why to cook meat long and slow.

[The American Left] seems content to do yoga and gender studies, leaving the fundamentalist Christian right and the multinationals to do the politics. Brian Eno on America. [thanks thad]

Free Manhattan School of Music faculty recital tonight.

Hugh Grant: puffy, queenie, likes to throw tanties.

Judge throws out obesity lawsuit against McDonald's.

Flub-titles: When a film's sub-titles don't make perfect sense.