3 October 2006

  • When medication is approved for different uses overseas than in the U.S., pharma websites change their pitch.
  • North Korea states it will conduct a nuclear test "in the future."
  • Because there's no way this will get on your nerves: introducing cell phone alarms.
  • Symphony audiences can't remember to turn off their cell phones before a performance, nor how to make them ring when phones are the performance.
  • The bar against promoting obscene devices has been found in other court cases not to infringe on a right to use obscene devices at home. Supreme Court won't challenge Texas's questionable logic.
  • The last rabbi standing in Baghdad celebrates Yom Kippur.
  • Bloggers versus high school students in the SAT Challenge.
  • "I'm Feeling Lucky" button now purely symbolic.
  • Beatty listened and then broke in: "Hey, she doesn't have gall bladder problems; she should be tested for hypoglycemia." Warren Beatty, postgraduate hypochondriac.
  • That the actual "fight club" was a group of kids with boxing gloves will not bar Fight Club from repeat reference.
  • Fortune's 50 Most Potent Threats to Masculinity.
  • Iran commemorates the Iran-Iraq War by letting gamers blow up American tankers.
  • Republican strategists say Foley's online flirting may cost them control of the House in November; if not, they reserve the right to scapegoat Hastert.
  • And since the GOP's fan base comprises soccer moms and conservative Christians, Republicans have reason for concern.
  • Foley could end up being prosecuted under laws he helped enact as co-chairman of the House caucus on Missing and Exploited Children.
  • Following yesterday's gruesome Amish schoolhouse murders, schools across the country brace for copycat killings.
  • Lawmakers accuse creator of "Cocaine" drink--which has 350% more caffeine than Red Bull--of either ignorance or greed; he admits it's the latter.