29 August 2006
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: dead
Massive fighting between Iraqi Army and Sadr's militia; more than 100 Iraqis killed Sunday and Monday.
Signs that don't work.
The fed said it would build "the best levee system in the world," but in New Orleans, one year later, is there much cause for faith?
New study finds thoughts of suicide are decreasing in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi.
Evacuee dating, gallows jokes, and hurricane humor.
The only good thing about borders is that they make for colorful maps. I think I'd better brush up on my Spanish.
Accountants are more likely to steal your lunch from the office fridge, unless it's diet food.
It's nothing special in the YouTube era, but back when Funniest Home Videos ruled, getting hit in the crotch meant something.
Now that Pitchfork can make or break albums, how long until its followers are lured elsewhere?
Videos of singing amateurs show the world is full of "Creeps."
Kakutani reads new Franzen memoir, fetches lighter fluid from basement.
The problems and promise of building African-language Wikipedias.
The president's grandfather did not describe Arabs and Muslims as "degenerate races, insects, rats, and snakes."
Bush's brains become recruitment tool for non-ivy university.
New jet to fly L.A. to NYC in two hours and without that annoying sonic boom.
How to hang artwork around your house and not screw it up.
Britain to soon ban sneaky journalists and snooping employers from analyzing DNA on the sly.
Japanese war tubas, sound mirrors, and a two-ton horn system on wheels.
On the value of writing subject-only emails.
If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin. Good quotes arise when journalists go on vacation.
Squinty-eyed manatees with "the brains of idiots" perhaps less stupid, more special.
Pictures from a scarecrow competition.