29 August 2006

  • 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.