29 November 2005

  • New York's currently: accepting the terms and conditions of this transaction
  • Evidence shows Shiite militias within the Iraqi police force are murdering Sunni civilians.
  • Representative Randy Cunningham resigns after confessing to tax evasion, accepting $2.4 million in bribes.
  • In addition to the cash and a Rolls Royce, Cunningham also received "a 19th-century Louis-Philippe commode." Stop the presses: Not a toilet.
  • In Hussein trial, the former dictator complains about having to use the stairs and carry his Koran in manacles. Later, he writes a poem.
  • Canada set for new elections after Liberal Party defeated in a vote of no-confidence.
  • New sound-annoyance device that affects only those under 20 could be the most effective anti-loitering method ever.
  • Al-Jazeera wants to sue George Bush for threatening to bomb their headquarters.
  • Video: Commercials by David Lynch, including a Twin Peaks coffee serial.
  • Men aged over 50 are allowed seven centimeters of upper hair to cover balding. North Korea campaigns against long hair.
  • Different-sized needles are needed to administer drugs to different-sized people.
  • Everybody agrees that cutting off terrorists' bank accounts is a good idea, but even now nobody can agree who's supposed to do it.
  • Ten cookbooks you'll want, and a few more you won't.
  • Girl with peanut allergy dies of anaphylactic shock after kissing boyfriend.
  • Albanians tired of police inaction over car jackings take the law into their own hands.
  • New tax legislation means songwriters can finally make real wages from their work.
  • The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Jazz is allowed, punk is too, so where's the rap?
  • Gastroenterologists want to study what goes on inside competitive eaters.
  • Many ways you can trick your body into doing what you want it to do.
  • Photo: Not the kind of message you want to happen across.
  • Let them sing it for you.