30 September 2004

  • New York's currently: telling the neighbor's kids it can't come out to play
  • After months of campaigning and weeks of misleading claims, the candidates enter their first debate, on foreign policy, tonight.
  • Watch the debates and play along! With the real rules (PDF), the drinking rules, or the real rules, made funny.
  • Expos to leave Montreal for Washington, D.C., becoming the capital's fourth major-league baseball team. (Dick Cheney, out of context: "It will force a lot of us to reorient our loyalties.") And: The history of relocated major-league baseball teams.
  • How electronic voting works in India, and why it works so well.
  • Six sentenced in bombing of U.S.S. Cole, two to death.
  • There are those who work at the Natural History Museum through the night, and there are those who travel to France to solve The Da Vinci Code.
  • Hate having to watch a movie to find out what happens at the end? Find your spoilers here.
  • New provision could allow U.S. to export prisoners to countries where torture is not a problem.
  • Despite low U.S. relations, Iran foreign minister says his country has the right to explore atomic technology, and does not intend to create nuclear weapons.
  • The fascinating Theban Mapping Project.
  • New Yorkers actually leave the city--this time to register voters and campaign for their candidates.
  • Because you've always wanted to know: Battlestar Galactica Time Units and Their Earth Equivalents.
  • Man writes phone number in Crate & Barrel catalog photo, meets up with callers for dinner, photos.
  • Man stages home invasion so he can fight the intruders and impress his wife.
  • Russian support of Kyoto Protocol may pressure the world's biggest polluter, the U.S., to reenter the treaty.
  • Godard's A Woman is a Woman is not a musical, but it acts like a musical.