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Headlines from October 9, 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."