9 August 2006

  • New York's currently: so much time with so little to see
  • Antiwar Lamont defeats "Team Connecticut" Lieberman in Democratic primary, Lieberman says he'll now run as an independent.
  • "What these races suggest is that, yes, the antiwar, anti-Bush, anti-establishment, anti-Washington message is very effective."
  • U.N. now redrafting a resolution to end the Israel-Lebanon conflict--a vote could still be a long way off, though.
  • When Iraqis flee their war-torn country, where better to seek asylum than the nation that led the invasion?
  • U.S. Army helicopter crashes in western Iraq; four crew members are injured, two are missing.
  • Support grows amongst Shiites for a segregated Iraq.
  • White House lawyers want to clarify the hitherto vague term "war crimes."
  • Convicted man's lawyers argue their client should be spared the death penalty because the jury wasn't allowed to take cigarette breaks.
  • Chinese downloaders and translators fight the system by making American TV shows available to their countrymen; Chinese punk bands go unfeared.
  • The continued revenge of the ticked-off copy editor.
  • In today's Mp3 Digest: Andrew Womack submits his funeral rider.
  • Mark Helprin remembers a peculiar kinship with William Shawn, canceling his subscription to the New Yorker.
  • Beckett suffered from a fearsome array of psychosomatic ailments, including stomach trouble, pleurisy, and recurrent cysts on the neck and anus.
  • When good company names make bad urls.
  • New study shows one soda a day equals 15 pounds a year.
  • The real mystery is why soapy women in the tub stopped receiving errant radio transmissions after 1950.
  • When the owners of the automatic parking garage and the writers of the software running it fight, it's the cars that suffer.
  • Paul McCartney sics legal hounds on Heather Mills over "borrowed" cleaning fluid, changes the locks.
  • There is a baby in my stomach. Japan institutes special seating on trains for the secretly pregnant.