27 January 2005

  • New York's currently: just a song inside your head
  • Suicidal man in L.A. drives SUV onto commuter rail tracks, decides to jump at the last moment and causes a chain-reaction wreck that kills 11, injures 180.
  • Douglas Feith, Defense Department strategist for post-war Iraq, announces his resignation.
  • Architect Philip Johnson dies at 98; a tour of his marvelous Glass House in New Canaan, CT, and one with Andy Warhol.
  • An interactive guide to everything you wanted to know about the Iraq elections (but were afraid to ask).
  • Murder Inc. record label head is indicted on charges of money laundering, and for scaring people.
  • Britain gets with the picture and draws up terror laws that will hold suspects indefinitely without trial.
  • Pay raises at the new Department of Homeland Security will be tied to performance, not amount of time on the job, a pay scale that could be rolled out to all federal agencies.
  • One in five Canadians supports polygamy.
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy page asks visitors to send in entries about everything in the universe, which raises the question: Is Wikipedia the real Hitchiker's Guide? And should we panic?
  • Way out in the wild Sulu Sea, tribes of aquatic gypsies live their entire lives at sea, touching land only to die.
  • Holocaust survivors and world leaders gather at Auschwitz today to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation.
  • Video: Girl jumps through a basketball hoop with help of breast-beating men.
  • BBC technology writer diagnosed with brain tumor keeps online diary of experiences; today he signs off. (Read the archives.)
  • At hearing, Mister Softee says its jingle can be annoying, but says that's good too.
  • Staff of Hot 97 radio show that sang a tsunami parody song have been "suspended indefinitely."