28 September 2005

  • New York's currently: too late for the cream cheese, just missed the jelly, and aching for that last pat of butter
  • Ex-FEMA director gives panel testimony, eschews blame game in favor of that wasn't in my job description.
  • Louisiana's staggering hurricane losses, in incomplete numbers: over 500,000 homeless; 300,000 out of work; 200,000 homes destroyed or heavily damaged.
  • Zarqawi's insurgency takes over five key towns in western Iraq, tells residents to leave or die.
  • Six killed by suspected female suicide bomber in northern Iraq.
  • Lynndie England gets three years for Abu Ghraib abuse; but, as one captain complains, the problem is endemic, and investigators won't go up the ranks.
  • First-ever photos of giant squid taken in its natural habitat "with a cheap camera."
  • Supreme Court docket swells over campaign finance and Anna Nicole Smith.
  • Brooklyn Democrat leader found guilty of illegal campaign funding.
  • Ex-Ground Zero volunteer arrested by fire marshals over stolen equipment.
  • Immigration to the U.S. finally peaked in 2000, and has been on the decline ever since.
  • Esquire editor writes story on Wikipedia, gets Wikipedia to edit it, which they do--500 times.
  • Free books! TMN & Plume give away Gary Benchley, Rock Star books each weekday!
  • Houston averts major water disaster due to Hurricane Rita disruptions.
  • Russia's Putin says he won't seek a third term, but has plans to remain in the political landscape.
  • The obstetric nightmare for African women: fistulas, not seen in the West in almost a century.
  • Out now with her debut album: Flora Bush, the third Bush twin, "the child left behind," the bad one.
  • Photos of people pointing at nothing.
  • Nice aerial map of Central Park shows major landmarks, even though you still get lost every time you go there.
  • The bad news is that after all the research and public education, the connection between diet and cancer may be unknown--even nonexistent.
  • Zombies are exactly like us in all physical respects but have no conscious experiences: by definition there is "nothing it is like" to be a zombie.