25 October 2006

  • New York's High Line no longer to include a Dia gallery at the bottom of the steps.
  • Already we have one very good reason to be excited for Christmas in New York.
  • New NFL plan means teams play one game overseas every eight years, for what that's worth.
  • Madonna blames media for adoption scandal; 9/11 not mentioned.
  • Nuclear secrets end up in Los Alamos scientist's meth-making boyfriend's trailer.
  • A guide to North Korea's official web portal.
  • PDF explains various canine postures.
  • Lucy bipedally lopes to Houston.
  • We desire your false election signs.
  • Unbearable Lightness of Being finally being released in...Czech.
  • The aerial map of the Staten Island Boat Graveyard, as featured in this week's ghouls-and-gasps gallery, "Ghostly Ruins."
  • Just in time for Halloween: Horrible handbags inspired by horror movies.
  • Like the boy at the party with cheese straws stuck up his nose, it has been caught doing something vaguely disturbing. "It" being Finland and that "something" being loving Latin.
  • TMN's Pasha Malla finds postcards from The Edge, as in U2.
  • Photos of a space shuttle launch as seen from the International Space Station. See also, White House photo blog.
  • The terrific, occasional Cabinet Magazine. E.g., how did Mexican radio get to the North Pole?
  • TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin asks his mother to review the week in songs for today's mp3 Digest.
  • French drawing instruction manual, Le Langage Des Lignes.
  • Linens, hello: Sales around New York at the moment.
  • Passaic, N.J., residents woven into new Michel Gondry movie. See also, Richard Ford knows real estate.
  • Iraq no longer fashionable for jihad fighters; Afghanistan rages again.
  • Top U.S. general in Iraq says military control can be ceded in 18 months, but first more troops may be needed.
  • Casey's plan to hand over the reins makes sense if you ignore reality around Iraq.
  • Dick on Hillary: I think she could win the presidency; Hillary on Dick: I don't take anything he says seriously anymore.
  • NASA needs you to lie down and use a bedpan.
  • Rebels seize town in east of Chad amid fears of renewed attack on the capital
  • Somali refugees flee Islamist/government conflict for Kenya.
  • Op: Maya Lin has left the realm of ideas to build bumps in the earth and garden paths.
  • The possiblity, almost necessity, of DNA testing to secure immigrant visas.
  • DNA evidence frees man after 15 years of marriage.
  • Turkmen president builds book-shaped "House of Free Creativity" to celebrate his state-controlled press.
  • Deputy head of Russia's space agency promises salvation if asteroids threaten.
  • Humans will require two planets' worth of natural resources by 2050, based on current consumption trends.
  • Eyelash transplants a good idea until they keep growing and growing.
  • Machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time. Very short science fiction. See also, six-word stories.
  • If you don't know who David Bowie plays in The Prestige--a staggering list of Tesla's contributions to modern science.
  • Women who have children late may be less likely to have grandchildren.
  • Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy decks amorous fan.
  • Gallery of This Old House home-repair goofs.
  • The Michael J. Fox stem-cell ad--a shameful exaggeration? as disturbing as a beheading?