7 November 2006

  • Video: A Valentine for Niles.
  • Don't you just totally love sushi? Did you know that your wasabi is totally fake?
  • This show is a deadpan hodgepodge of peculiar banalities that collectively liberate a tornado of question marks.
  • What would you like kept four feet away from you at all times?
  • The Satya interview with Peter Singer, continued from the September issue, where they interviewed Michael Pollan.
  • The fairy tale is over, the dream is dead / Britney files to divorce K-Fed.
  • So does this mean we should be nicer to pigeons, lest they hold it against us?
  • "Acting goofy" not tantamount to libel, court rules in Britney Spears case.
  • The libertarians aren't always crazy: Why anti-internet-porn laws won't solve any of the internet-porn problems.
  • Briefly describe your favorite "Lubitsch Touch."
  • Launched in August, Tibetan web television brings the Dalai Lama, government-in-exile's words to the world.
  • TMN's Matthew Baldwin presents a guide to the elections you won't be deciding.
  • It came from Telezonia: Old educational films show up in art houses.
  • In Iraq, it's time to rehire all the old Baathists who, unemployed and disenfranchised after Saddam's depature, became ripe recruits for the insurgency.
  • Piercings are now as popular as their resulting infections.
  • Offspring of Nazis' engineered master race don't act like you'd expect Supermen to act.
  • See, even the Intrepid doesn't want to leave New York. ISN'T THAT CUTE?
  • New Yorkers will soon be able to change their gender on paper, sans surgery.
  • Polls show anticipated voter turnout at its highest for a non-Presidential election in 50 years.
  • Anticipation has been at a fever pitch for so long that anything less than a big win for Democrats today could feel like a defeat.
  • What will Democrats do if they win? Read the manifesto and find out.
  • Op: Remember that whatever happens, Bush still sets our foreign policy.
  • Voiceover artists Dennis Steele and Scott Sanders explain how to make a threatening political ad.
  • Stanley Fish: Teachers have an obligation not to get political in the classroom.
  • For those who plan to feed at the trough of the blogs tonight: Exit polls will be more tightly guarded than '04, and you're going to bed early anyhow.
  • Schedule of poll closings in key House races. (pdf, 52KB)
  • Indicating that he still plans on being relevant, along with Mr. Bush, two years from now, a White House aide said that Mr. Rove "disputes the premise."
  • After today, the 2008 campaign for the White House begins.
  • Iraq's Interior Ministry charges 57 of its employees with human rights abuses.
  • Actress Adrienne Shelly's hanging death revealed to be murder.
  • Imelda Marcos's new fashions won't include shoes--"yet."
  • La Crosse, Wis., asks whether drunk college students or a serial killer are to blame for drownings.
  • One-third of mice that are exposed to jet lag die.
  • Duct tape does not cure childrens' warts--though a piece across the mouth can stop their complaints.
  • Meet AI Escargot, the world's most difficult sudoku.
  • The perfect tool for those lacking a fully developed sense of spatial perception.
  • Mr. Sun has the campaign buttons you wish you could wear today.