6 September 2006

  • New York's currently: planning on being happy later
  • Iraq extends its state of emergency by a month.
  • Army revises war rules to provide Geneva protections for all detainees, eliminate "unlawful combatant" interrogation tactics.
  • Iraqis change their names so they aren't killed over their identification cards.
  • Fed drags its heels to care for sick Ground Zero responders, as in the 70 percent who developed breathing problems (though Bloomberg shouts, "not so!").
  • Deal secured for release of Israeli soldier Shalit.
  • Following TIME's coolest list, PC Magazine says TMN is one of the web's "Top 99 Undiscovered Websites."
  • New Republic suspends an editor for sock-puppeting his own blog.
  • The U.K.'s currently known entrances to Hell.
  • As soon as winter comes, there won't be a story anymore. How long can Battleboro's naked teens let it all hang out?
  • Upper West Side landmark P & G Cafe to close; bartender laments lost neighborhood.
  • The Mass-Observation movement--studying mass behavior for an anthropology of all of us--should be restarted with a blogspot account.
  • Op: There's no point in being afraid of science--let's just fear ourselves.
  • Artist Rosemary Williams gets a bag from every store in the Mall of America (see the "Consumed" interview).
  • Andrew Womack on the 2006 summer jam in today's Digest.
  • Verizon yanks rural payphones, so the Amish build their own: a photo gallery.
  • How to skip 1-800-number phone trees.
  • Mexico's high court puts the conservative in the president's chair.
  • Wolfgang Priklopil, Austrian kidnapper du jour, rocked the Commodore 64.
  • British scientists angered by experiments that "prove" phone telepathy, life after death, psychic healing.
  • Runner gets stuck in mud, lives on swamp water while swamp bugs live on him.
  • What's fall without football, and what's football without football movies?
  • We want to be able to supply an entire produce department with Disney Garden products. No dessert until you eat your Spongebob.