7 August 2002

  • New York's currently: staying the course for two more days
  • Nine miners saved by courage, engineering, faith; Tenth miner saved by Ozzy.
  • Imagine that Wilbur has snuggled up on your lap. He is pure white, pink around the ears and smooth as silk. Which part of Wilbur would you like to eat first? Describe. Charlotte's Web, as interpreted by the Pork Council.
  • Israeli Supreme Court upholds army's right to destroy the homes of suicide bombers' families without warning.
  • Man who raked in thousands from Rome's Trevi Fountain for 34 years arrested. Related: Good Roger Ebert column on La Dolce Vita, Fellini's masterpiece that made the fountain famous.
  • Times Magazine to lay out 800-pound architectural plan for Ground Zero.
  • Oasis (but not Liam!, or that other guy!) survives head-on car crash in Indianapolis.
  • Lots of details, dish: Lawmakers stick to gentlemens' agreement: no tattling on transgressions.
  • If you're playing street ball, make sure you know the rules before you enter the cage. [thanks jim]
  • 'The audience's behavior is predictable and always very human,' said Mr. Ibarra, the host. 'They automatically vote for the person who they think needs the job the most. So the man with a disabled child, the woman who has children but no husband, is preferred over the person who is not quite as bad off.' New game show in Argentina features big prize: A job!
  • Call us backwards, but a paper-free and zero-book college campus sounds like an exercise in deliberate foolishness.
  • Delicious: Hilton sister spoof in GQ (girls billed as 'The Marriots') offends Marriott hotels.
  • 'This is Donna Karan,' he said, rubbing the shirt between his thumb and forefinger. 'And when I put right on my program 'Wardrobe courtesy of Donna Karan of New York,' it says to people in my public: 'This guy's different from the average classical musician, who doesn't care how they look.'' Meet Soheil Nasseri, the classical pianist who gets out of the house.
  • Animate horses in ways they shouldn't move: Le ciel est bleu puppet tool.