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Headlines from October 6, 2006

Video: Voices That Care.
The Fall 2006 New York art openings of note.
About Iggy's vocal--we need lots... make it strong and punchy, a bit like a boxing kangaroo. The best tour rider ever.
Kentucky wants to ban the alcohol inhalation that's replacing sipping.
The Second Annual Vendy Awards; nominate your favorite vendor here.
Music for L Trains.
In Digest, Sarah Hepola goes oobatz for Scorsese.
JonBenet's non-killer un-arrested.
How to write your novel when you're on the clock.
House ethics committee to investigate allegations of congressman-page hanky panky.
Evangelicals: so upset that they may even vote for a Democrat, worried they may be abandoned by their children.
"Oh, thank God," Foley responded. "Send me that photo, I might need it someday."
Fire everywhere: Soros-backed watchdog group under fire for not cooperating with FBI, FBI under fire for not following up on Foley's emails.
Condoleezza Rice visits Baghdad, gives thumbs up all around, wears a helmet.
2006 Ig Nobel Prizes awarded last night; a full list of winners, including "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature."
"Those Amish people, everyone is sitting around talking about those poor little girls--blah, blah, blah--they brought the wrath upon themselves." Baptists decide not to protest funeral.
World rebounds with 16 new planets after Pluto's departure.
Japanese now hold records for both calculating pi most precisely and reciting pi most exhaustively.

U.S. government staffed by a statistically significant number of porn fiends

that number will be going up.