5 May 2005

New York's currently: cinco everything

"Novelty" grenades explode outside U.K. Consulate in Midtown Manhattan, no one injured.

Top Bin Laden aide captured, though calling him "basically the no. 3 guy in Al Qaeda" is inflating the hierarchy quite a bit.

Insurgency attacks continue in Iraq, 22 killed today.

IQ scores around the world are soaring.

Vietnam PM to visit U.S. for the first time since the end of the war.

Court in the Hague refuses to jail George W. Bush.

Many many Mercedes models.

Man inserts himself into Airwolf episode, finally has Ernest Borgnine as co-pilot.

Does your English cut the mustard? Find out when you take this quiz.

Following yesterday's profile of potty-mouth Saget and the "Aristocrats" joke, here is video of the incredibly offensive, NSFW South Park version. [via waxy]

Classic Manhattan diner will be pulled up, retire to a better life in the Catskills.

"[We] find an abundance of pieces--and more to the point, characters--who aspire to little more than a tightly prefigured, inexorably domestic doom." What's wrong with "best-of" book series.

Convert any image into a knitting, crocheting, needlepointing, or cross-stitching pattern

Wikipedia is a real-life Hitchhiker's Guide: huge, nerdy, and imprecise.

A gallery of New York's many manhole covers.

Video: Uberkill, hilarious, touching, and troubling.