28 August 2006

  • New York's currently: taking a bite out of you everyday
  • Kentucky commuter plane carrying 50 takes off from wrong runway, crashes, kills 49.
  • Kentucky viewers displeased by Conan O'Brien's plane-crash Emmys opener.
  • Nasrallah: We wouldn't have captured those soldiers if we'd known war was coming.
  • The role of Othello in the Duke rape case.
  • David Sedaris's audio guide to his Paris--i.e., the places where people aren't mean to him.
  • Pulizer-winning Tribune reporter charged with espionage in Sudan.
  • Children who nearly poison their teachers grow up to almost destroy the world.
  • Jackie Mason, jew, sues Jesus.
  • Secret menu items ordered by regulars in Manhattan restaurants.
  • Mosaic art to be found in the New York subways.
  • Photographs of new Russian highways. (See also, Denmark's million starlings.)
  • Jonathan Lethem and Bob Dylan discuss the new Dylan renaissance.
  • Songs that are playing on America's radio stations this very moment.
  • Op: If newspapers want to sell papers, they should look at the sheets that charge nothing at all.
  • The watch has all but lost to the cell phone.
  • Texan busts British burglars by watching Beatles webcam in Liverpool.
  • English musician to charter jet, take 300 fans on tour.
  • Match celebrity faces to your family photos.
  • Five signs--ornamental grasses, gelato, etc.--that your Los Angeles neighborhood is gentrifying.
  • Hint to non-terrorist environmentalists: Don't suggest destroying dams.
  • Escaped tiger loses its life and its handler, his job.
  • Video: David Brent trains Microsoft employees.