4 October 2006
By The Morning News
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Did the gracious lady have all those beautiful feelings thanks to my poor quartets? Brahams, it turns out, was a wiseass.
Author spies hole in historical literary landscape--no good history of funerary violins--and fills it, despite there's no such thing as a funerary violin.
A concise history of safecracking, an art some fear may go lost in modern times.
R.W. Apple died early this morning.
North Korea pledges a nuclear test, perhaps not a terrible thing since it would unite China, Russia, and South Korea in opposition.
World's tourists can now be united in touring Iran's nuclear sites.
Expect the 300 millionth American to be born in the middle of this month.
While violence continues, Abbas says talks between Hamas and Fatah have broken down and a new cabinet must be formed.
Congressional Republicans tucked away $20 million last year to commemorate success in Iraq and Afghanistan; the money has not been spent.
Underfunded school lacks resources to calculate student-to-teacher ratio.
Scocca: The Malcolm Gladwell point, dulled by a zillion aphorisms, has been reached.
A poker tournament becomes a lot more exciting a) when it's conducted on your 10-year wedding anniversary, and b) you have a plane to catch.
Maine politicians smack down crabby FDAers trying to call a scrawny prawn a lobster.
Gourmet ranks America's top 50 restaurants, Chicago's Alinea takes the cake. (You can now buy Alinea's pins and needles for your own table.) Meanwhile, Michelin disses Waters.
Exploding Hello Kitty heating pad oozes fun, hot toxic goo.
Death threats and reward offers for killing the cartoonists were made. Most are still in hiding. Summary of the year in Danish Muhammad cartoons.
Profile of Robert Crumb's brother Maxon, maker of art, eater of plant food, payer of his father's karmic debt.
Partly because you've been a bit of an asshole-grandma. Ways to tell your grandmother why you won't be selling her memoir to Hollywood for millions.
What it takes to map Kerouac's On The Road using Google Maps.
Sympathy lacks for New York squatter fighting to save his one-bedroom in light of landlord's offer of cheaper, stabilized apartment elsewhere.
Four percent of all U.S.-grown hops destroyed in fire; future of beer, fun questionable.
Beer goggles at the pub--dangerous when a horse is a regular.
Mappy Hour brings you Happy Hours in Google Maps.
Time for you to get a haircut.
Every Breath You Take by The Police. It's just freaky. Readers respond to Jarvis Cocker's request for unintentionally scary songs.
Popularity of artisan cheese-making has led to a (admittedly small) boom in cave construction.
How to journey safely to espresso Nirvana and back.
Tokyo's electronic district's latest product: sweet snow.
Llewellyn Hinkes looks for old cassettes in today's Digest.
Examples of the dashed line in use. See also, Interactive imperial history of the Middle East.
Note to kinky Mensa party-planners: Breast milk does not make you smarter.
To see in NYC: Inquiry Towards the Practice of Secular Magic; Richard II; as much Reich as you can handle.
