25 February 2003

New York's currently: fishing and spooning

U.S., Britain, and Spain ask the Security Council to say Iraq missed its chance to disarm, now go looking for votes. France, Russia, and Germany ask for more time.

North Korea fires a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan, on the eve of South Korea's inauguration of a new president. Related: 'How serious is the U.S.-South Korea rift?,' and other questions answered in brief.

Its isolation is so complete that no one is even sure who the country's president is any more. World loses contact with Nauru.

Interview with magician Derren Brown, who uses mind-control.

33,000 Nikes drifting towards Alaska.

Clay Risen in the New Republic on the Times's wishy-washy approach to architectural criticism.

Gorgeous design: Naked, featuring regular people taking off their clothes, and why they're doing it.

Karl Rove takes credit for 'talking [Bush] into' tort reform.

Great blog: Gillian Hadley, tagging seals in Antartctica.

Art lenders wary to ship to New York without beefed-up security and costly terrorism insurance.

Neal Pollack has a fetish for Wonder Woman.

Silicon.com goes the whole way with Mr. Madu and the Nigerian money scam.

Lincoln Center wants to turn West 65th Street into 'a bright, open boulevard of marquees.'

I think I was always disadvantaged when it came to writing fiction in that I have never been able to think of stories or plots. There are ways of getting around that. Salon interview with Geoff Dyer.