6 May 2005

  • New York's currently: totally under construction
  • New satellite images show North Korea is preparing to test nuclear weapons--or perhaps just making like it for the cameras.
  • Reacting to news of nuke tests, Japan PM demands North Korea return to six-nation talks or face intervention by the Security Council.
  • Blair wins re-election--an unprecedented third term for Labour--but is hit with a drastically reduced majority.
  • Kansas Board of Education debates evolution, prefers to promote the concept of "intelligent design."
  • Bloomberg says NYC tax surplus will go to smaller classrooms, more garbage pickup, tax rebates, to "try to make the burden of living in this city tolerable."
  • Bush administration strikes Clinton act, opens 58.5 million acres of national forest lands to development.
  • M.I.T. students organize first time travelers' convention. Read for more nerdery than you can handle.
  • It's commendable that there's training involved, but is it really called "Whore College?" Note: Yes, yes it is.
  • In Japan, tradition crashes with public dispute settlement in the "It's me! It's me!" scam.
  • It's the Ultimate Blogger Intenet Cage Match: guaranteed somebody will be maimed.
  • Washington-area officials explain the "Wile E. Coyote-looking contraptions involving Tupperware tubs, tiny, whirring fans, toolboxes, foul water, and at times, small, perhaps sinister-looking poofs of dry ice."
  • Nine arrested for possession and sale of white sturgeon caviar.
  • Eight years old and still good: Simulate the life of a McDonald's worker.
  • Interesting way to interpret flags of the world: as infographics.
  • Can't find poutine? Haven't even started looking yet? You can always make your own.
  • How things work: caffeine, lightsabers.