6 November 2006

  • Working-class Brits love celebrified slang, and hate workplace jargon.
  • All we really want for Christmas is a giant swirling plastic vortex that can threaten marine life.
  • The lexicon of presidents' speeches, tagged.
  • Worst game ever of "Never Have I Ever" results in homicide charge.
  • One giant pain in the ass.
  • How the real people who appear in Borat are responding to the film.
  • Video outtakes from Vanity Fair's Borat photo shoot.
  • Seven of the 3 million immigrants granted amnesty under the IRCA in 1986 tell their stories.
  • Drink coffee, live forever, and remember every minute of it.
  • How a very reluctant gambler can blow $1000 in Vegas.
  • Daniel Ortega appears to have won Nicaragua's Sunday presidential election.
  • White House, Republicans, and Democrats hail Saddam's hanging verdict; Iraq is a bit more divided.
  • Baghdad remains under indefinite curfew to prevent sectarian violence.
  • Ted Haggard's wife explains she'll now be able to sympathize with women facing great difficulties.
  • Supreme Court takes on the constitutionality of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act this week.
  • Cheney will spend election day hunting in South Dakota, his first trip since shooting a friend.
  • Bush says thousands of registered Democrats needed for "extremely important" mission.
  • Media won't let Minnesota congressional candidate forget that he's African-American and Muslim.
  • Explaining why the same candidate, in New York, can appear on the ballet four times for four different parties.
  • Op: Conservatives choose between enabling "crimes against conservatives," or placing national defense in the hands of fools.
  • Ready to vote, New York City? Find your local polling site.
  • Mike Skinner of The Streets "gutted" to tear a muscle just before the New York marathon.
  • Why very rich people should invest in micro-financing: to get richer.
  • Planting a tree can help save the world, but don't choose the kinds that emit junk.
  • Idaho State a little embarrassed to be home to world's foremost Bigfoot researcher.
  • Former D.C. librarian Mark Plotkin left town shamed by other Mark Plotkins: lawyer, political commentator, and ethnobotanist.
  • Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori becomes first woman to lead a national Anglican church.
  • Patent to help deceased auto-lovers who previously couldn't take their cars with them.
  • Vast market anticipated for device that disinfects doorknobs.
  • Extreme blending sees a complete McDonald's meal whizzed together.
  • Concluding the month that was Steve Reich's birthday, where pieces of music left you happy "like drugs without the mess."
  • Possible titles for negative reviews of the Bob Dylan/Twyla Tharp musical.
  • YouTube gems of '80s Scottish indie disco.
  • Capture of Utah's public enemy number one probably not a case of mistaken identity.
  • Sherlockians know Holmes didn't wear an Inverness cape, but that won't stop you from buying one.
  • Will the influx of rich (white) neighbors cause the Fulton Mall to make room for a Banana Republic? Will the influx of (richer) white neighbors kill all the clubs in Williamsburg?
  • Forty-seven-year timeline in the war for Washington Square Park.
  • Riding in traffic isn't very fun, but that doesn't stop New York from being a city of bicycle zealots.
  • Frazier: Our wasteful consumer society buys, reads, and discards more brand-new hardcover fiction in a single day than the rest of the industrial world combined.
  • Twelve signs you drank too much last night.