5 June 2006

  • New York's currently: revising its mantra
  • Pentagon's plan to allow for prisoner humiliation draws State Department's fury.
  • In Haditha's shadow, the case of Hashim the Lame, a disabled Iraqi allegedly murdered by Marines.
  • Rice dismisses Iran's threat to disrupt oil shipments.
  • Little red cells in India, arriving via rain in 2001, may be aliens.
  • Japanese pay $30 billion to relax--e.g., $120 to be massaged in an aquarium.
  • Alan García elected president again, 16 years after overseeing Peru's economic collapse.
  • Pilot had "one hand full of snake and the other hand full of plane."
  • Journalists envy Tintin as a reporter who never feels pressure to file a story, but everyone else can just enjoy the plots.
  • Op: Darfur reminds us how remote the ideal of a common international humanity remains.
  • "Soda" vs. "Pop" vs. "Coke," mapped.
  • Abandoned refrigerators in New Orleans.
  • Be grateful you're not burning. Robert Stone remembers watching penguins in the Navy.
  • Photo gallery from blind date between whales.
  • Over 150,000 masks were distributed at ground zero, but most workers didn't have them or didn't wear them.
  • Big traffic for websites offering recipes on how to abuse prescription drugs.
  • College students found dead inside giant helium balloon.
  • Video: Bjork's live-action version of Street Fighter.
  • Small Indiana town tries to go off the grid with biodiesel and pig fuel.
  • People worshipping at home seen as growing trend.
  • Minute-by-minute account from the life of a New York sous-chef.
  • New York websites; e.g., New York Brain Terrain, The Paupered Chef.
  • Decorative labels for your home appliances.
  • Eight thoughts on Super 8 home movies.
  • Video: A beautiful hole-in-one.