3 May 2005

  • New York's currently: exactly 20 minutes late for a week
  • Congress readies legislation to limit illegal immigrants: no driver's licenses, more proof for asylum, completed border fence.
  • Pentagon confirms protracted Iraq troop deployments will reduce its ability to respond to conflict, either at home or abroad.
  • Lynndie England pleads guilty, but is only allowed to once she changed her reason from direct order to peer pressure.
  • Study claims those who go to church have above-average health and lower rate of illness--and that those who use religion to cope with illness don't fare as well.
  • Know the answer to today's trivia question? Tell us and win a Mercury Rev prize package from TMN and V2 Records!
  • Dyes in spices imported into the U.K. may cause cancer.
  • The U.S. is still no better prepared against nuclear terrorism than it was when John Kerry and George Bush stumped about it.
  • NYC plans major rezoning of Williamsburg-Greenpoint waterfront, throws around "esplanade" quite a bit.
  • Signs of the times: opera of 1984 set to premiere in London; plague of locusts attack.
  • Building wall collapses into Brooklyn bodega, killing one and injuring six.
  • Gallery of sitcom-house blueprints.
  • Scientists say parents don't like their ugly kids.
  • Man finds finger in frozen custard, no really, this time it's true. Most likely.
  • Thirty years later, Springsteen is no longer a musician. He's a belief system. Bruce Springsteen, bullshitter.
  • New York bouncer blogs about getting stabbed, other job headaches from beside the velvet rope.
  • MP3s: Primal Scream's brilliant Screamdelica album, remixed.