25 January 2006

  • New York's currently: well lit
  • Hamas projected to win a third of parliament's seats; Snake makes friends with hampster rather than eating him.
  • Abbas: Better suited for running a Scandinavian country?
  • To fight terrorism, France has been spying on its citizens for years, and apparently it's effective.
  • Why French people do get fat, and why McDonald's is more popular in France than anywhere else in Europe.
  • Annan: There is little hope for Darfur at this point.
  • Kristof counts the world's failures that allow genocide to continue in Sudan.
  • Sixty-two percent of college students say they've been sexually harrassed.
  • Paperwork saved before the Motown Records office was torn down; Martha Reeves moves on to politics.
  • Email spam technology used to predict Sundance hits.
  • Making the president look great with set design--an archive of Scott Sforza's accomplishments.
  • Once it was about the movies, then it was about the celebrities, now Sundance is about the publicists.
  • How do you spot a rich Italian in New York? He brings his own bread to Le Bernadin.
  • Top 10 most endangered foods in America.
  • What are your three favorite novels from last year?
  • The extremely frightening Mike Jeffries, CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, who finds your "cynicism" and "moodiness" unattractive.
  • Older people should waddle more.
  • TMN's Paul Ford, plus Bob Powers and Todd Levin, tonight at "How To Kick People."
  • With Disney's purchase of Pixar, will the animators' genius be diluted?
  • Movies reviewed by the city of Los Angeles.
  • Video: Remember when you knew Ghost World would be good?