29 June 2005

  • New York's currently: terrified of high-rise a/c window-unit meteors
  • With no new strategies to fight off attacks, Bush declares daily sacrifice of American lives in Iraq to be "worth it."
  • Immigrants' fingerprints expire every 15 months, though no one at the immigration service can explain why.
  • Canada becomes third country to legalize gay marriage nationwide.
  • Female novelists rule Iran's publishing charts.
  • Islamic gay-haters in New York City--how can intolerance be tolerated?
  • Danny Gregory walks you step-by-step through his watercolors for TMN.
  • Remembering Staff Sgt. Anthony Lagman and Sgt. Michael J. Esposito Jr.
  • After Nike apologizes for robbing Minor Threat graphics, what other album covers can be ruined by corporations?
  • Shelby Foote dies at 88. (Hear Foote on his friendship with Walker Percy.)
  • Ass crack is alive and well in New York, and now it's intentional!
  • Joe Miller's jests--jokes from the 18th and 19th centuries--still produce groans (enduringly popular groans).
  • French literary competitions plagued by corruption.
  • Safire returns to the Op-Ed page to defend Miller and Cooper, calling for Novak to explain himself.
  • A view of Niger from a car with no brakes.
  • 15 days of tube hell in London compiled as a three-minute video.
  • American students under attack in Australia, finding themselves quite unloved.
  • You are asked to do something odd during a job interview that makes you uncomfortable--do you do it?
  • The Hillary Clinton book: Finally, 18th-century political pornography is back!
  • Very detailed foodie fantasy Iron Chef starring Thomas Keller and Heston Blumenthal.