3 August 2005

  • New York's currently: warm in all the wrong places
  • Citing "unprecedented political opposition," China's Cnooc Ltd. drops bid to acquire Unocal.
  • After their plane slid across the runway in Toronto and burst into flames, the passengers and crew of Air France Flight 358--all of whom survived--cried and drank champagne.
  • Fourteen Marines dead in vehicle attack in western Iraq today; six Marine snipers ambushed and killed, their attackers later distributed fliers saying what they did.
  • Taliban emerges in a plan to kill off the top Afghan clerics.
  • Does God truly exist in our hearts? No. But those worms are pretty real. Read more at Giganticide.
  • Congrats: This time, when Bush heads down to Crawford for five weeks, he'll finally have set the record for most presidential time off.
  • A live band plays directly into your headphones, but you set the tempo.
  • "We didn't really know him. We just had him arrested." Nudist will be buried with his clothes on.
  • Multimillion-dollar international airport to be built in southern Iraq, with Iran's help.
  • You will always be 10 years old.
  • Authorities in London report religious hate crimes--mostly against Muslims--have risen, and sharply.
  • Supreme Court nominee John Roberts responds to critics, explains that he rules on precedence, not activism.
  • Interviews with World War II's conscientious objectors.
  • There is no art experience quite like the one where an artichoke stares you down.
  • Despite the reports, despite a Kennedy, the thimerosal vaccine doesn't appear to cause autism in children.
  • Todd wonders what his last words might have been, and is glad they weren't what they might have.
  • How to make your own chai using tea bags, milk, sugar, and a microwave.