24 September 2003

New York's currently: monsoon-y then sunshine-y

Bienvenue Leonard Bonn!

Saying the world had 'come to a fork in the road,' at what 'may be a moment no less decisive than 1945 itself, when the United Nations was founded.' Kofi Annan rebuffs Bush U.N. address. Related: Bush speech shows little has changed. Related: A critique of the address.

Guantanamo airman charged with espionage.

'A Miserable Failure:' Bush's re-election chances. Related: Administration loosens environmental regulations.

Civilian dies in Iraqi roadside bombing intended for U.S. patrol.

Environmental extremism turns violent in California.

Fliers that looked like expired green cards, T-shirts with the image of a drunken Mexican, and a mock border patrol checkpoint at the door. Duke University fraternity party stirs up bad feelings.

New York restaurant video dining tours.

A tropical fruit about the size of a tangerine, whose leathery maroon shell surrounds moist, fragrant, snow-white segments of ambrosial flesh. The exotic, unimportable mangosten.

Just because: How to build a compressed-air potato gun. Also: How to play Bonving. (Throw a shoe, catch it in a bucket.)

A list of (possibly) every known plant, its origin, natural predators, and how to ship (?) it.

A rose, beautiful petals of ASCII, and a cautionary tale. Why? Because you're failing your HTML class.