25 May 2006

  • New York's currently: 28-hour-ing
  • Pelosi and Hastert demand the return of Jefferson's yanked files.
  • Yanking a congressman: more a matter of etiquette than constitutional principle.
  • Engineers have quickly repaired the New Orleans levees, though they're still not strong enough for even a Cat 3 storm.
  • You can't compare it to the Senate floor. Bill Frist operates on a gorilla.
  • Passengers bravely take down plane showing Big Momma's House 2.
  • The case for abolishing library fines.
  • Thirty years later, U.S. beats France again in wine contest, though it wasn't without difficulties.
  • Progress but no punch as Security Council tries to decide on Iran package.
  • Soldiers grieve when their bomb-defusing robots blow up.
  • Female chatbot will help you quit smoking.
  • Op: Hysterical seems apt to describe the reaction to "The Israel Lobby," stirring pots like no other essay in recent memory.
  • Photos of the 1932 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
  • Ground breaks for Brooklyn tower to house formerly homeless, special-needs tenants, and low-income artists and actors.
  • On Bill Buford's obsessive love for Batali, and Childs's revolution grown in France.
  • Germany: Ruled by the old, for the old--but with great trains, great hospitals and a rather charming love of nudity.
  • Top 50 conservative rock songs, chosen by the National Review.
  • Sound audible only to under-20s, originally used as teenager repellant, now used by teenagers as secret ringtone.
  • Links for getting started in aerial archaeology.
  • Artistic interpretations of literary figures.
  • Philatelic detective reunites 1847 letter with postmaster provisional "Alexandria Blue Boy."
  • Video: Implosion of a nuclear plant.
  • Minute-by-minute account from inside the machine that's The Price Is Right.
  • When they catch and cuff your brain, the jerk even tries to bust in the cop-car window. This is your brain on drugs.