30 August 2005

  • New York's currently: got New Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxi in its heart
  • Katrina spares New Orleans, but at least 40,000 homes near downtown are flooded, and dozens killed in Mississippi.
  • Ground report of devastation from Gulfport, Miss.
  • PDF of today's Times-Picayune: Catastrophic (breaking news posted here).
  • Energy anxieties after facilities shut down around the Gulf.
  • Iran satisfied with Iraq's Sunni-less constitution; Arab League hopping mad.
  • You may now kiss not your girlfriend, or your domestic partner, but your wife. The official Derrida wedding ceremony.
  • Times picks Snyder over Morgenthau for Manhattan D.A.
  • Mothers who vowed, in 2003, to knit a quilt for the next of kin of every soldier killed in Iraq struggling to keep their promise.
  • Chávez may try to extradite Pat Robertson, a "public menace."
  • Op: Attention Christian fascist bullies, come down off the cross--we could use the wood.
  • How much of a role did global warming play in attacking the French Quarter?
  • Twenty tips for first-time U.S. Open visitors. See also, the Times guide to secret oases around Ashe stadium.
  • Another fire in Paris kills seven children in a building housing African immigrants.
  • Templates for building your own wild west city from paper.
  • Photos: Faces found in ordinary things.
  • One man has way too much Cosby on the brain.
  • After Iraqi Army unit took control of area near Sunni triangle, security is maintained and attacks have decreased.
  • Calvin Trillin learns Spanish through conversations about food.
  • TMN is looking for a fall intern--you could be the one!
  • Preppy killer goes back to jail, this time for heroin possession.
  • Have you been swimming in dorky rivers, logger? Trying to translate what my girlfriend is saying in Swedish while she's on the phone to her mother.
  • Munich food blog.