7 February 2006

  • New York's currently: diagnosing anyone who will listen
  • White House releases D.O.A. budget.
  • Danish Embassy in Tehran set on fire as worldwide protests over Danish cartoons rage.
  • Attorney General and surveillance, blah blah blah; Sylvester Stallone and surveillance, hello!
  • Thousands in Atlanta pay respects to Coretta Scott King.
  • Gervais and Merchant to write an episode for U.S. Office.
  • Judge orders wall built down center of Borough Park home in divorce of "millionaire sweater manufacturer."
  • Bronx Zoo plans to shut down elephant exhibit if (and when) any of the animals die.
  • Find your way out of this pickle, MacGyver, and you could win a copy of Danny Gregory's new book!
  • Scientists say a "lost world" of animal and plant life has been discovered in an Indonesian jungle--still no dinosaurs, yet.
  • Video: Are you a part of the new American coffee revolution?
  • JT Leroy partners split, point fingers, work on movie; investigating John Banville's The Sea to determine if it's actually a memoir.
  • Pioneer of the tortilla chip, Rebecca Web Carranza, dies at 98.
  • Cold Center in Wales has steady stream of test subjects thanks to sickly students, though no word yet on whether their parents made it into the office yesterday.
  • And there's more: British scientists infect themselves with hookworm in the name of allergy research.
  • Modern love is all about who likes the Taquitos.
  • Signal from space suit set adrift is lost, then found again.
  • Fascinating: Double-Tongued Word Wrester records undocumented or under-documented words from the fringes of English.
  • Video: Episodes of The IT Crowd, comedy about the guys in the server room, from the creators of Father Ted.
  • The 700 Club has advice for those of you with daughters who are "fascinated with vampires and other occult practices."