30 November 2004

  • New York's currently: the remains of the turkey
  • U.N. gives seal of approval to European nuclear deal with Iran; U.S. criticizes the move, but reserves the right to call for sanctions.
  • There is no more dangerous job in Iraq than being a police officer--but as unemployment soars, so does recruitment.
  • Outgoing Ukraine president supports a revote, while Ukrainian parliament considers a no-confidence motion in the government.
  • Powell's noise about strained U.S.-Ukraine relations is followed by Bush's silence.
  • Red Cross charges that the U.S. military, as well as some medical workers, engaged in tactics "tantamount to torture" at Guantánamo Bay.
  • Read transcripts, listen to excerpts of Kennedy calls to Mississippi Governor Barnett during the Ole Miss stand-off in 1962, and other White House tapes at American RadioWorks.
  • Look at Me has new old photos and a spanking new site.
  • The sun is shining outside, but it's still raining: What do you call that? The answers vary.
  • How to manufacture a girl group.
  • Huge archive of movie trailers at Turner Classic Movies. [via coudal]
  • Criticizing critics' book-of-the-year lists and trolling Connecticut for old writers' homes.
  • Late on seeing this necessary reading: Anti-birth-control pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions for the pill.
  • Gift ideas for the holidays! Exploding Dog's new book, Amazing Rain; Cat and Girl's Newtown Creek Sewage Processing Plant 2005 Calendar.
  • Disclaimer stickers for science textbooks.
  • See what the stars look like, wherever you are. (No walking outside necessary.)
  • Animated, with pirates of course: How to Kill a Mockingbird.