27 July 2005

  • New York's currently: really really hot every time the power drops
  • Rumsfeld discusses massive troop withdrawal from Iraq beginning next spring.
  • Four men arrested in London bomb investigation, one suspected of involvement in last week's attacks.
  • Was Owen Wilson the Karl Rove to Wes Anderson's election as hipster king?
  • New York detectives hone their skills by studying Vermeer.
  • Just so you know, the fight against terror is now officially a "struggle," not a "war."
  • London police wonder: were the bombers duped into dying with their bombs?
  • More Americans now prefer wine to beer.
  • Video: Chuck Berry, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono do not make a great trio.
  • The New York Times launches airport bookstores, starting in Kentucky.
  • Chicken Soup For The Soul now available in magazine format.
  • Op: This summer is deadly hot, yes, but it's also plain deadly.
  • Miami apologizes for exhorting kids to "prove just how ghetto [you] are."
  • New dance craze: silent, headphones-only parties.
  • A German magazine published a coupon for free sex with prostitutes. The week in news, as summarized by TMN's Paul Ford.
  • 1977 interview with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
  • With demand for power at record highs, the price of electricity has doubled in two months.
  • Roundtable with eight literary journal editors.
  • Hybrid taxis to hit New York streets next fall.
  • 43 percent of house and senate members who left government since 1998 became lobbyists.
  • The Chelsea Hotel has an in-house blog.
  • Game: Stackopolis.
  • Fascinating story of what happens when you expose the underbelly of Wal-Mart's success.
  • Lawyers love that the Wayback Machine preserves old web pages.
  • But seriously: What do we really know about Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson?
  • The United States of America, according to my racist aunt.