8 February 2006

  • New York's currently: seduced, annually, by the Caribbean ads on the subway
  • Conservative Japanese leaders very happy to hear Princess Kiko is pregnant.
  • Roadblocks in the mongoose-cobra peace process.
  • Massive study finds no link between low-fat diets and preventing heart attacks, strokes, or breast or colon cancer in women.
  • U.K. jails "epitome of Islamist extremism" Abu Hamza for seven years; U.S. to seek extradition.
  • Record sleeping pill sales in the U.S.--up 60 percent since 2000--have experts worried side effects aren't known.
  • You may be a bad emailer because you can't empathize.
  • Fourteen ways to be a better emailer.
  • Four die in Afghan cartoon riot.
  • Iran's largest newspaper holds international competition for Holocaust cartoons.
  • And: Iranian Commerce Ministry calls for renaming Danish pastries after a flower named for Muhammad.
  • Which religions endorse illustrations?
  • Op: What Westerners don't get is that Muslims take this personally.
  • Speed-reading techniques.
  • Mp3 blog Moistworks hosts writers week, with Jonathan Lethem, Sam Lipsyte, and others posting favorite songs.
  • Bush's head speechwriter is a lot more compassionate than conservative.
  • Chance that a Briton has bought a book "solely to look intelligent": 1 in 3.
  • U.K. to cover U.S.'s ass aid by funding safe abortions in developing countries.
  • Someone is burning Alabama churches, and it's the ATF's number-one priority to find out who.
  • Only you, MacGyver, can save the world and win a copy of Danny Gregory's new book.
  • Eighty-six evangelical Christian leaders, including Rick Warren, decide it's time to fight global warming.
  • Hungarian director makes his last appearance at his own funeral.
  • There is always something unmotivated about conversion experiences. J.M. Coetzee on Gabriel García Márquez.