24 August 2005

  • New York's currently: searching for the next dawg, dude, bro, man, etc.
  • New York and eight other Northeastern states to freeze power plant emissions after Bush chose not to regulate greenhouse gases.
  • Insurgents built ingenious 357-foot-long tunnel to escape U.S. prison in Iraq.
  • White House proposes tiny increase in gas mileage standards for light trucks.
  • It's almost as if the movie is about 40 virgins who are still toddlers. Press wrestles with grammatically incorrect title of The 40 Year-Old Virgin.
  • U.K. reveals new terror deportation rules; new wave of deportations expected to follow shortly.
  • Missing park ranger found in better-paying job.
  • Op: It's time to declare war on the media's "terrorism experts."
  • Schwarzenegger's bills paid by non-profits representing big corporations with business on his desk.
  • Little, Brown realizes big mistake in covering Rick Moody's new book with a lusty barbarian.
  • Ten things Congress could demand from Bush on Iraq.
  • Secular Iraqis join disappointed chorus crying over possible domination by Shiite Islamic clerics.
  • How the movie business, born in New York in the 1890s, moved to Los Angeles.
  • Videos: Display made from water.
  • NY subways to get 1,000 cameras, 3,000 motion sensors, and cellphone service in 277 underground stations (but not moving trains).
  • Egyptian blogs push limit of dissent; Iran-style censorship expected soon.
  • Black Widow eats 40 crab cakes in 12 minutes--should competitive eating be an Olympic sport?
  • Comic drawn by nine-year-old, starring a guy with "BJ" on his chest.
  • PDF: Free first issue of Hellblazer.
  • Scientists suspect we're on the cusp of "a gathering wave of ocean extinctions."
  • How to build your own terrarium.
  • In Barnes & Noble, hell is other people.
  • NYU offers its first hamburger appreciation course this fall (video of course syllabus?).
  • How to decipher a Chinese menu.
  • Mysterious piano man adored by tabloids turns out to be Bavarian, talking, and no virtuoso.