25 August 2006

  • New York's currently: finishing the summer of George
  • FDA approves access to morning-after pill for women over 18.
  • France promises 2,000 troops for U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon; other European countries will likely follow.
  • The State Department wants to know if Israel used American cluster bombs in Lebanon, since such use was prohibited in the arms agreement.
  • Men break record time for riding the entire length of the subway system.
  • Now that Pluto is no longer a planet, how are they going to change all the planetariums, textbooks, and that diorama you made in second grade?
  • Sarah Hepola on the week's best videos.
  • From speech bands to speech balloons: the evolution of illustrated talk.
  • Investigators realized the man she claimed was her lodger was in fact her lover. World's most orgasmic woman also a cheat.
  • Is meat really murder if it's cloned?
  • Air Marshals drop their slacks.
  • School bus driver accused of assigning the back of the bus to black children.
  • Cheap flights for fly-plagued people.
  • Since then, she has not stopped mentioning Barney's p***s.
  • Haunted house owner Prince Valiant shoots trespassing teenagers.
  • George Mason drops SAT requirement, will admit students based on GPA and class ranking.
  • "We are not promoting Hitler. But we want to tell people we are different in the way he was different." Mumbai restaurant trying to find a way to stand out.
  • Uruguayan officials, concerned neo-Nazis may want artifacts, ponder the ethics of recovering a Nazi battleship that was scuttled in 1939.
  • A manatee up from its natural home off the Florida coast has departed New York and is now summering in New England.
  • British Sea Power loves John Betjeman.
  • Golfers can tune their bicycle's rivets before heading off on a deer hunt/cycling trip armed with blinding lasers and an entire collection of three-inch knives.
  • Gently used FAQs.