5 January 2006

  • New York's currently: preparing to leave the city for the woods to earn a plaque
  • Eighty killed today by suicide bombers in Iraq, the deadliest day since March, 2004; 50 killed yesterday.
  • Sharon underwent emergency brain surgery after an extensive stroke Wednesday night; current condition stable but heavily sedated.
  • Times depiction of chaos in Gaza gave this reader a migraine.
  • What will happen to those U.S.C championship T-shirts? They may be going to Haiti.
  • Bush sneaks past Senate to install Ellen Sauerbrey--his 2000 campaign's state chairman--as emergency relief coordinator.
  • White House to give up $6,000 from Abramoff.
  • Cox: Abramoff is just the idiot we need to remember how slimy Washington really is.
  • With only 37 outlets, Ikea is somehow the 11th most popular restaurant chain in Germany.
  • Nature study finds an average of four errors per article in Wikipedia--and three per entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  • I could eat a knob at night. Karl Pilkington's Wikipedia entry.
  • From 2000-2004, probably the most exciting trend was the increase in Brazilian butt lift surgeries, or the death of the record industry.
  • Seriously, was it only the black prisoners who wanted a peek at Reese Witherspoon?
  • Pete Townshend warns iPod users: don't be deaf like me.
  • You can establish a series of punishments for failing to meet your writing goals. Tips for frustrated writers.
  • Popular Mechanics busts 9/11 conspiracy myths.
  • Manhattan's syrup smell blamed, of course, on New Jersey.
  • In three years 70 million televisions will go dark when the industry switches to digital TV.
  • Supreme Court allows feds to try Jose Padilla in public court, but leaves his detention unjudged.
  • You'll have to wait for the weekend before knowing if Mozart's skull has been found.
  • Unusual aviation pictures.
  • Video: Parents put your biodata online, fearing you'll date a white girl? Rap about it.