9 February 2006

  • New York's currently: wondering when it will be the sick passenger
  • U.S. enlists feeding tubes to quell hunger strikes at Guantanamo.
  • Suicide bomber attacks Shiite holiday procession in Pakistan, killing 22.
  • Inside tolerant Denmark, many are perplexed at being the focus of Muslim anger.
  • Bird flu reaches Nigeria, worries experts who say Africa's veterinary controls are too weak to contain the virus.
  • Cancer deaths in U.S. drop for the first time in over 70 years.
  • Solve today's MacGyver challenge and you could win a copy of Danny Gregory's new book.
  • Fiction... but it has the absolute ring of truth. American Association of Petroleum Geologists presents journalism award to Michael Crichton.
  • The story of the city employee who kept a power plant from exploding during the 2003 blackout pretty much arrives as a movie treatment.
  • Video: Fighting Life: Rejoicing the Human Spirit.
  • Vast sections of the city are still without utilities. Without electricity, businesses can't open their doors; without open businesses, electric bills can't be paid. Limbo Land, New Orleans.
  • Computer determines found Pollocks aren't the real thing.
  • Reports suggests wiretapping may have been used to get wiretapping warrants.
  • It's so hard to get the good wiretapping these days.
  • How to explain away your Google search history.
  • Finland wants more grandparents to have recess.
  • Video: The Secret Machines, "Alone, Jealous, and Stoned."
  • Japanese designer creates one ca-ra-zy chair.
  • It sucks when your spelling bee judge screws up.
  • The Park Slope of the future is a techno-wasteland, at least according to Freejack.