28 March 2006

  • New York's currently: engineering less often than reverse-engineering
  • Senate Judiciary Committee votes to legalize 11 million illegal immigrants.
  • Mexican towns emptied of working-age men and women; $20 billion sent home last year.
  • County testing wastewater to learn how many citizens are doing coke.
  • How to sell faux Yale over the phone.
  • Shiites say U.S. targeted their mosque and gunned down worshipers; U.S. claims a "highly successful" operation against insurgents.
  • Philadelphia Eagle arrested for dancin', dancin' in the street.
  • Only four out of 1.5 million people on espn.com predicted this year's Final Four.
  • ML.A. produces map of 30 languages spoken around the U.S.
  • Neurologists suggest Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were products of altitude sickness.
  • Georgia may become first state to require teaching the Bible as a textbook. (Are school reading lists becoming too trendy?)
  • Bible comes in at number two after To Kill a Mockingbird as librarians' must-read text.
  • Rachael Ray's new magazine taken to task.
  • Today's ToB action includes prog-rocker Nell James putting Nail Gaiman and Ali Smith in a box and shaking it!
  • Sudden hole in Brooklyn eats SUV.
  • Islamic couple, married for 11 years with three children, divorced after husband snores the magic word three times.
  • Second Haitian skull dump discovered--voodoo or political unrest?
  • Fun with YouTube: Leprechans, ninjas, CNN on fire.
  • Gentler cybersquatters now form relationships with someday-celebrities.
  • Pictorial atlas of the world. See also: a field guide to fascists.
  • Superheroes on the toilet.