24 April 2006

  • New York's currently: dreaming of square footage
  • Evidence of torture and abuse found at Iraqi jails as recently as February--and stemming it is no longer a priority.
  • Only a month into its control of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas is already internationally isolated, deep in debt, and in severe disarray.
  • Bin Laden tape exhorts Hamas, Sudan to make war with the West; Hamas, Sudan say no thanks.
  • New Orleans election may be decided along racial lines; with many black families still displaced, that means the city could have its first white mayor in almost 30 years.
  • On strapping ads to sheep--are cows and horses next?
  • Sixty-one-year-old man murdered in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Saturday afternoon.
  • The new debate on lethal injection--is the pain removed, or only masked?
  • Twenty years ago, the world's worst nuclear disaster occurred at Chernobyl; photographs of what it's like now.
  • A man who can detect songs most people don't notice is a watchdog for music publishers.
  • Behind the technology of wah pedals.
  • He often ordered two or three gin martinis first, so he was well oiled by the time the food came, and I always ordered the same thing: shrimp rémoulade, chicken Rochambeau and ambrosia.
  • Naval Academy tired of losing at croquet, brings in the big guns.
  • Transit workers' leader Roger Toussaint gets ready for his 10-day jail term, wants to take along a book about the Irish Transport Workers Union.
  • Video: "Dueling Banjos" tribute-of-sorts to hillbilly culture--many CBs on show.
  • The three Long Island brothers who are the last members of Adolf Hitler's paternal bloodline.
  • Apparently giving up his former career as a bikini inspector, man poses as doctor, offers door-to-door breast exams--and locates two takers.
  • Maldivian fishermen find drug stash, traffickers face death penalty, people afraid police are going to smoke it all up.
  • Spain may bid "adios" to the siesta.
  • DonorsChoose opens BloggersChoose, a way for bloggers to create donation challenges, and their readers to help fulfill them.