3 February 2003

New York's currently: plagued by Hummers

Buzz Aldrin responds to the Columbia tragedy. Also, Astronaut Michael Anderson mowed the lawn wearing goggles as a child, so he wouldn't damage his eyes.

The argument for dismantling NASA's shuttle program, by Gregg Easterbrook.

Ashcroft orders prosecutors to seek execution, even after they promised a murder suspect a life sentence in exchange for testifying against others.

Starting this week, area codes must be dialed. Roger Angell takes us back to Butterfield 8.

Method used by the FBI in matching defendants to bullets now called into question.

People half-asleep drive cars, eat cigarettes, rape, behave like cats, all without remembering.

Gristle: Gossip on every celebrity you've ever heard of.

UK's Ali G to appear in six half-hour slots on HBO.

We make the Rolls-Royce of lard and want it recognized. Lard is to be enjoyed on its own.

Even before he died, W.G. Sebald's books 'had a strangely posthumous quality about them.'

I've found you can deal with the system a lot easier if you use their rules--by understanding their rules, by using their rules against them. I talk to a lot of lawyers. Interview with Hunter Thompson.

Flak's best 20 songs of 2002, with MP3s in some cases.

Transit: Massive collection of San Francisco and New York graffiti.

Cops catch suspected burglar fleeing in a wheelchair, top hat, and cape.

North Carolina BBQ (vinegar) rumored to grow in Brooklyn at Biscuit.