30 September 2003

  • New York's currently: post-season, precooked, crisping
  • White House says it didn't leak CIA agent's identity.
  • Laura Bush welcomed in Paris; Chirac, Bush get nice photo op with hand-kissing.
  • Putin bombs with global warming joke at U.N. environment conference.
  • Air France and KLM to merge, will become world's third largest airline.
  • ACLU says the RIAA is illegally subpoenaing thousands to find alleged copyright infringers.
  • Muslim who killed Westernized daughter pleads for execution.
  • Is KFan starting his own restaurant? No, but you could be forgiven for thinking so.
  • St. Petersburg, FL, shuts down rock band Hell on Earth's plans to feature an onstage suicide.
  • Little, Brown insists on its baffling comma (what's wrong with Little and Brown?); the comma-free Harcourt Brace Jovanovich is not a law firm but possibly hopes to be mistaken for one. Citation, style, nightmares, and the new Chicago Manual of Style.
  • Sunscreens may not, in fact, prevent skin cancer.
  • 'We went to Taco Bell,' he said of the last time he saw the billfold. 'I took my money out of it to pay and put it on my lap.' Man recovers wallet lost in 1996. [via os]
  • Later he gets photographed with visitors from Ft. Lauderdale. Smiling at the camera, Devlin tells them, 'Give the peace sign, huh?' They all do.Visit Max Devlin, the official hippie still at Woodstock. Free guided tours.
  • Student transfers from No Child Is Left Behind act causing classroom sizes to explode.
  • A breakdown of bee-sting remedies, their endorsers, their effectiveness.
  • No less than a dozen Beatles look-alike tribute and cover bands performed in Cleveland last month during 'Abbey Road on the River.' Rocking the tribute bands.