9 October 2006

  • In 1994 we took our traditional pilgrimage to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
  • Alcoholism treatment centers--now for anyone who wants a vacation from public scrutiny.
  • Lock the doors: Gothamist's NYC news map confirms danger everywhere.
  • Beautiful transsexuals.
  • Thirteen-year-old fires AK-47 into school ceiling--most likely not in protest of Columbus Day.
  • Gallery of Robert Gibbings's striking wood engravings.
  • Video: How Hussein Chalayan made dresses that don themselves. (Background here.)
  • Britain considers writing itself one of those whaddaya-call-ems--constitutions.
  • Indian primary school dries out, now much less vomiting after recess.
  • Full Wikipedia rundown of South Park's World of Warcraft episode shows fan obsessiveness at its finest.
  • Advice for when you deploy to Iraq; not mentioned: bring your own water harvester.
  • Seven years after warning energy officials of the dangers of ethanol, the former head of refining at Chevron is CEO at Archer-Daniels Midland, and wants you to put corn in your tank.
  • Color Palette generator designs better websites, bathrooms, outfits.
  • Today in Digest: Robert Birnbaum on books about news.
  • North Korea announces underground nuke test--seismic reports substantiate the claim.
  • Analysis: Now that Pyongyang is a nuclear contender, decision-making in Washington is a lot more clear-cut.
  • Republican congressman one-ups peers, says he's known Foley was sending dirty messages since 2000.
  • But as far as culpability in the Foley case... House Republicans may benefit from the evangelical conception of sin. Trying to predict how conservative Christians will vote--not the easiest thing.
  • Midterm elections are presidential hopefuls' cotillions, so where are our front-runners?
  • Imagining a Democrat-controlled Congress; both sides of the aisle question whether impeachment has made the agenda.
  • No more lines at the salad bar now that a popular brand of lettuce has been recalled over E. coli concerns.
  • City Opera IDs web, Netflix as competitors, drops ticket prices to $20.
  • Claiming she was the victim of state-sponsored fraud, mother wants to un-adopt son.
  • Louisiana woman sues to re-adopt dog sent north after Katrina.
  • U.N. taps YouTube in search for anti-poverty spokespeople, gets fart jokes instead.
  • Fappiano... had prior arrests for rape but was never convicted. Brooklyn man released from prison 21 years after wrongful rape conviction.
  • Real ways to save real bookstores: liquor licenses, self-imprints, and wealthy shoppers.
  • Steve Carell's new movie smites budgets, is on its way to becoming the most expensive comedy ever.
  • Kalmykian president supports chess, buddhism, contact with extraterrestrials, and not so much democracy.
  • Elsewhere in Russia, hired killers stalk the streets.
  • The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
  • Male contraceptives make progresses, though still a problem with "back pressure."