5 August 2005

  • New York's currently: arctic living rooms
  • U.S. in negotiations to move around 70 percent of Guantanamo detainees back to their home countries, where they would still be detained.
  • Europe asks Iran to forget all this nuclear business and have some nice political and economic relationships instead.
  • Disease and famine in Niger kills a quarter of children under the age of five--and the crisis is spreading to other countries.
  • Blair puts forth plan to oust those who support terrorism within the U.K.
  • News that John G. Roberts advised gay and lesbian groups confuses opponents on the left, advocates on the right--though it shouldn't.
  • Revising the revisionists: Sixty years ago tomorrow, Truman dropped the bomb. Was it the right decision?
  • In northern Israel, Army deserter opens fire on bus of Israeli Arabs, killing four, wounding at least a dozen.
  • The River Po in Italy is awash in cocaine.
  • "Cool Props": photos of books used as window A/C unit props.
  • The little dinos are dryosaurus. I made up the big ones. Art blog dictated by a six-year-old.
  • Video: Watch things being thrown into a giant shredder.
  • The world's greatest tambourine players, collected.
  • Hatching ancient eggs tells a story of evolution.
  • Jamming a Pair of Scissors Repeatedly Into Your Crotch.
  • "And no pleats. I do it with cuffs. Never a break." Some pretty fancy-pants talk for 90-degree weather.
  • The history of paint-by-number.
  • Concept albums just don't work in mp3 format.
  • High school football coach reprimanded for licking player's bleeding wounds.