6 October 2004

  • New York's currently: quickly remembering winter
  • Karzai's VP running-mate bombed but not injured, marking third attack on Karzai's supporters before this weekend's elections. (Rival gains by appealing to anti-Soviet vets.)
  • Reporters agree Farnaz Fassihi's email was correct about life in Iraq (see letter here).
  • The veep debate was: a contentious draw; remarkable for an internet goof; the sun on Edwards's face; the meat in Cheney's molars; insignificant.
  • Can the FBI fight terrorism better by adopting tactics from the U.K.'s MI5, particularly if that means large invasions of citizens' privacy?
  • Top 10 flip-flops committed by Bush, and top 10 committed by Kerry.
  • Rodney Dangerfield dies at 82.
  • 101 essential pieces of concert music from the 20th century, to be explained.
  • More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops begin major operation to secure lawless areas, undermine insurgents.
  • Video: Theo Jansen's skeletons walk on the wind.
  • Neighbors battle with presidential placards in Plymouth, Mich.
  • Reported mastermind behind Iran's nuclear program announces new missiles can cover 2,000 kilometers.
  • Politics! Bush supporters asked to spin Cheney as debate's winner hours before debate began.
  • Journal drawings from a visit to New York.
  • Spot repeated phrases in last night's VP debate.
  • The Bush rhetoric is clever. It may deceive many voters. Many arguments for why bird watchers may be the dark horse voting block.
  • Facts spat during debate checked and corrected.
  • Video: Mechanical pong, not described in English.
  • Twenty years of shortwave recordings that may contain secret intelligence.