6 June 2006

  • New York's currently: avoiding the Castavets
  • Supreme Court to again decide whether schools can consider race in efforts to enforce integration.
  • Calls to ban gay marriage and kill the estate tax aren't really intended to change policy--they're about separating the strong conservatives from the weak.
  • Iran reacts to the EU's atomic proposal, saying it has both "positive steps" and "ambiguities"; U.S. offers access to new plane parts for Iran's notoriously old civilian fleet.
  • The U.S. military has cut the number of Iraqi civilians killed at checkpoints to one a week, down from seven per week almost a year ago.
  • In Baghdad, gunmen in police uniforms and ski masks kidnap 56 people only a mile north of the Green Zone.
  • The first known American descendant of Genghis Khan--an accounting professor at the University of Miami.
  • One in five Ivy League students cut themselves.
  • Duke lacrosse to return next year.
  • Man challenges existence of God, slips into lion enclosure, is mauled to death.
  • Stronger wine, bigger wineglasses are making us all completely drunk.
  • Video: 1,337 Drum Skills.
  • TRATTIs generate noise and sound and music (depending on your ear) according to what the kid is looking at.
  • Excellent: Simple things you can do right now to jumpstart your writing efforts.
  • Now that pennies are really worth 1.23 cents each in manufacturing costs, is it time to get rid of them?
  • Existential pleas and resignations Mad Libs.
  • The Kill Rock Stars video podcast.
  • Suitcases full of frogs are transported out of Central American in an attempt to curb extinction.
  • World Cup fever: Don't mention the war; the tribulations of Cup haters.
  • Twenty years after photographing every citizen of a small Iowan town, Peter Feldstein returns.
  • Video: The 1964 World's Fair.
  • Part of the exhaustive Kubrick FAQ: What does the ending of The Shining mean?