27 September 2005

  • New York's currently: perfect, weather-wise
  • More than 3,000 killed in Baghdad since late spring.
  • Bush urges conservation. We repeat: Bush urges conservation.
  • Five-year-olds determine sadness solely from tempo and not from mode. Do kids recognize emotion in music?
  • Rita's evacuees urged to stay away from their homes.
  • Laura Bush to appear on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Biloxi, Miss.
  • With Sharon in place, and despite Hamas leader's pledge, U.S. backs Israel's continued attacks.
  • Monkeys throw stones in Jerusalem, and zoo keepers build a "separation fence" around them.
  • Zarqawi's number two killed in Baghdad.
  • Recollections of meeting Osama bin Laden.
  • For the first time, FEMA to reimburse churches (with large-scale payments) for disaster aid.
  • Vote for your favorite public intellectual.
  • Op: Katrina spend-fest will separate the fiscal conservatives from the porkers.
  • Big profile of optimist/fatalist Conan O'Brien.
  • Survey of popular punchlines in New York comedy clubs right now.
  • The Firefighter's Workout Book. The Glucose Revolution. Books discarded on the subway.
  • Lynndie England found guilty on six counts, faces up to 10 years in prison.
  • Foreign Policy's ideas and institutions that may disappear in 35 years, e.g., monogamy, or the Euro.
  • Op: Is it OK to have more than one iPod?
  • Sounds to help you get off the phone.
  • Rumors of deaths, attacks in the New Orleans Superdome greatly exaggerated.
  • Recipe for the protein shake that helps Pat Robertson leg-press 2,000 pounds.
  • Astonishing photographs of one family's saga along the Gulf.