30 August 2006

  • New York's currently: sunless, bleak, unable to wake up without help
  • Either students are dumber or the SATs--now a soul-crushing four hours--are too long.
  • Fake-a-wish foundation introduces dying child to Brett Favre lookalike.
  • Hikers warned never to caress a Swiss cow.
  • I spend a lot of time with my Fresians, and they definitely moo with a Somerset drawl. British cows adopt British accents.
  • New Yorker pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones edits today's mp3 Digest in TMN.
  • CBS, journalism's Fort Knox of integrity, trimmed and slimmed Couric promo photo.
  • Obesity swells in the states, and middle-class families aren't rising.
  • Middle-class neighborhoods in cities declined from 58 percent in 1970 to 41 percent in 2000.
  • Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village now for sale, and we're talking $5 billion.
  • How to make a custom home projector screen.
  • The lost art of film editing--particularly when today's film directors begin their careers making television commercials.
  • Composite photograph of Agassi playing Pavel.
  • For those who don't follow tennis, a guide to the jewels in Flushing.
  • For those who like reading their novels upside-down, a guide to Mark Z. Danielewski's new Only Revolutions.
  • Video: The Running, Jumping & Standing Still film.
  • Veteran's WWII souvenirs, including 13th-century papal letters, returned to Poland.
  • Stories and resources for children of hoarders.
  • Game developers admitted they had restyled him as a tribute to Freddie Mercury. Top 20 gayest video game characters.
  • Six parasites you don't really want to know more about.
  • Google's classic texts now printable.
  • The non-intrusive, contextually-relevant, targeted price to pay for free music downloads.
  • Video: The confounding magic of Daniel Chesterfield (also to be found in Hummer commercials).
  • Telemarketers tortured by pre-recorded voices.