27 April 2005

  • New York's currently: cooking 30-minute meals in just over two hours
  • Though Syrian troops may be gone, its intelligence appears to have every intention of remaining in Lebanon.
  • Science panel suggests stem-cell guidelines: no for-profit embryos, no freakish human-animal creations.
  • Muslim cleric in Virginia convicted of inciting followers to jihad; training involved paintball matches in the countryside.
  • State-penned editorial suggests that China's staged anti-Japan protests were in fact a conspiracy against the Communist Party.
  • Catch Tobias Seamon reading at SUNY Albany tonight with his mother!
  • Iraqi political leaders agree to cabinet split--six posts to go to Sunni minority.
  • Stamps.com brings back its personalized postage stamps, this time with new security that weeds out most things besides your baby and dog.
  • Building a map of New York's literary characters.
  • There is life on Titan! But it is bizarre and possibly dangerous!
  • Police use lounge chairs, tennis court to corral wandering buffalo herd.
  • Lots o' fun: Guess the Google.
  • World's biggest airliner, the double-decker, 555-passenger Airbus A380, makes its maiden flight.
  • How to make a marshmallow, make a coin ring.
  • Major terrorist attacks tripled in 2004, calling into question who is really winning the war on terrorism.
  • New Orleans lunch institution gets ready to shutter.
  • Fiction: Haruki Murakami, "Where I'm Likely to Find It."
  • "It's the most vital f------ city in the world," said Al Gordon, 78. New Yorkers report that they're happy.