4 January 2006

  • New York's currently: racking up store credit all over the place
  • Contrary to earlier reports, only one miner has survived the West Virginia mine explosion.
  • U.S. airstrike north of Baghdad kills family of 12.
  • Iran breaks European agreement, says it will resume uranium enrichment, or rather, it's building a bomb.
  • Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to corruption charges, will name names, serve 10 years in the clink.
  • Somali government close to returning to Mogadishu.
  • Analysis shows that as things currently stand, the easiest thing may be to convert the Capitol into a minimum security prison.
  • In the event of a dirty bomb, the Homeland Security Department advises reoccupying contaminated areas over letting all that fuss impede everyday life.
  • Abramoff ran for student council president in 1972. Heading into a runoff election, he was disqualified for exceeding the spending limit.
  • Though digital projection may give new hope to movie theaters in the war against bootleggers, the real money is actually in the popcorn.
  • Swedish Pirate Party hopes to gain entry to Parliament on its platform of, well, piracy.
  • CNN advocates child exhibitionism in the pursuit of snow days.
  • New Yorkers: Meet your new City Council speaker, Christine Quinn, "the most powerful openly lesbian or gay official in the country." And next: the world!
  • "The animals most like men," the validity of life on Mars, and other scanned entries from a 1920s encyclopedia.
  • Volkswagen studies American drivers to build the perfect American car--which, as it turns out, has three wheels.
  • Willie Nelson gets better mileage when his car is running on vegetable oil.
  • Farmers find small cows make better pets, eating.
  • The long history of people doing dumb things near wild animals--and the subsequent maulings.
  • Study shows that as the price of alcohol goes up, the sale of cheaper--and substantially more--booze does too.
  • Video: Disturbing "stabilized" version of the Zapruder JFK assassination film.
  • The party in New York after the transmission of the first transatlantic cable was absolutely blinding.