8 August 2006

  • New York's currently: teaching itself new keystrokes
  • BP shuts down U.S.'s largest oil field; White House considers opening Petroleum Reserve.
  • Lebanon to deploy 15,000 soldiers to the south, though not to disarm Hezbollah.
  • Modern Lebanese politics and life condensed.
  • The last seven months were the warmest the continental U.S. has ever recorded.
  • Use of sleeping pills up 50 percent since 2001.
  • New Oliver Stone 9/11 film introduces "single plane" theory.
  • One hundred reasons to remember John Huston.
  • Why must academics wear witches' robes while delivering Harry Potter analysis?
  • Once upon a time, the Bronx Zoo unveiled a Congolese man inside the monkey cage.
  • Did you ever see any women get spanked with a security sign at any of these meetings?
  • Thoughts and links relating to man-made islands.
  • Sudoku has driven many crossword experts to drink.
  • Let's be clear: it's not that dirty kids listen to dirty music, it's that sexy music makes teen babies.
  • Video: Natalie Portman likes Nelly.
  • Nation of Cameroon takes advantage of the fact .cm is just one letter away from .com.
  • What it's like to be raised by two blind parents.
  • AOL puts three months of search data online and all we find out is that User 17556639 really wants to off his wife.
  • Nearly a thousand Girl Scouts offered free rabies shots after co-habitating with bats at camp.
  • Hostel reviews to remind you why hotels are worth paying for.
  • First Inuit microbrewery makes beer from melted icecaps.
  • Given Cuba's rich biodiversity, could Castro's legacy be as a conservationist?
  • Once "selling out" no longer mattered, Nike became king of skateboard culture.