26 April 2006

  • New York's currently: thanking you for this balloon mug filled with Tootsie Pops, not really meaning it
  • Bush proposes using the strategic petroleum reserve to offset high gas prices--though he already tried this, and it didn't work.
  • Fox News commentator Tony Snow to step in as new White House press secretary.
  • Jane Jacobs, savior of modern New York, dies at 89.
  • Many concerned that Sunnis and Shiites in Saudi Arabia, sympathetic to their counterparts in Iraq, may make discord at home.
  • In video, Zarqawi shows his face, claims Bush is lying about military wins in Iraq.
  • Silverstein agrees to terms of World Trade Center construction; projected Freedom Tower completion date: 2012.
  • "Not everybody will love you." The trouble with traffic cops in Moscow: fake traffic jams and extortion.
  • The men who know the mysteries of oysters, burrata, Guinness.
  • In tall grass, look for horizontal lines that stand out against the vertical grass. How to see in the dark.
  • Questions for George Saunders--120 of them, actually.
  • Author Kaavya Viswanathan issues apology for "unintentional" plagiarism--but the cribbed books' publisher doesn't buy it.
  • Tonight at How to Kick People: Patrick Borelli, Sam Means.
  • CEOs who get a dollar a year; "I hate Secretaries Day."
  • Men more wary of potential rivals when their partners are at their most fertile; man accused of rape for trying to sleep with the wrong woman.
  • "He seemed like a guy who cared a great deal about the quality of work he gets involved with." Post-Freejack, mind you.
  • China's bra manufacturers can't build big enough cups these days; "improved nutrition" is cited as the reason behind the recent boom.
  • New Yorkers: no. 1 in clogged toilets.
  • This is the Buddha Machine.