26 August 2008: Morning
By The Morning News
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"Thanks for giving us Stalin." On the Georgian-turned-Russian dictator, and how Putin is resuming his work.
Dipping world economy forces Russians to kick their milk habit, Brazilians to stay at home.
Bay Area zoning laws and the technical illegality of lemonade stands pits city hall against city youngsters.
Photos: The 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, when desperation switched to violence.
Mercifully they realize I've no time to give autographs, and so they ask only the cast members. Woody Allen's diary from the set of Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Op: Catcher in the Rye is no longer the book it was--why are we still teaching it?
In the Alps, a melting glacier reveals neolithic, Bronze Age, Roman, Middle Age artifacts.
A nice collection of 1970s packaging.
Yep, I actually clipped and kept the Star Wars comic strip from the newspapers. I had thought I'd lost them until I...found this old yellowed envelope.
An art-loving family ponders whose paintings--Rothko, Warhol, Hockney?--to represent in tiles on their bathroom wall.
For followers of the Feltron Annual Reports, introducing Daytum, where you can chart the minutiae of your life.
Lynch delved deep into his box of oddities for this baffling minute of mind-wrongs. Cool commercials by movie directors.
Video: Hands on a Hard Body, the must-see documentary about a group of people who compete to win a mini-truck.
