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Headlines from October 10, 2006

Sam Lipsyte travels with Michel Houellebecq and wakes every morning waiting for crap, hell, prostitutes to happen.
The good thing about the tank is that you can always find a parking space. Kosovo tank is the new Hummer.
Yahoo to beam their digital time capsule into space from top of ancient pyramid for more space-travelling power; only 29 days to add your message.
Professor of dental radiography on a few things floral. See also, comment spam as art.
The garage door opener button is the unsung workhorse of the button world. Tracing the history of the button.
Mists of fear cleared anticipating this week's Friday the 13th.
When a blogger does go right? Sherlockians and those who admire their headmaster capes would do well to follow the Baker Street blog.
Is there better (streaming) party and chill-out radio, when the feeds are flowing, than Radio Nova?
The sidewalk mayors of New York City streets.
"The MacBeth effect" means the guilt-ridden prefer moist towelettes as gifts over pencils. (Perhaps they should pour maggot juice on their wounds.)
Massive sound and video files for major art (Erik Satie, Richard Serra, Samuel Beckett, Klaus Kinski).
Want to bind your own books? Voila, a well-photographed tutorial.
An albino moose is really a kind of "mistake." Norwegians insist white moose, in "purely breeding terms," must be shot.
Much chatter about that great galactic question: Has anyone ever had sex in space?
Photos: Where the superheroes are working now.
David Byrne on Sufjan Stevens: It certainly all hung together.
North Korea's nuclear device may not have exploded to its complete potential, but that doesn't mean the world, including Iran, isn't on full alert.
U.S. calls for aggressive sanctions at the U.N., but the White House insists it wants North Korea to return to the six-nation talks it left 13 months ago.
Perfect Picture of Wisdom and Boldness. Eternal Bosom of Hot Love. Titles world leaders have allegedly used to refer to Kim Jong-Il.
And in light of eternal hot love bosoms, how to explain North Korea's adverbs-and-bubbles-mad press releases. (Try reading through a vast archive yourself.)
Latest Gallup poll shows Democrats leading Republicans by 23 points when people are asked which party's House candidate would get their vote (but will the Dems really pull off 15 seats?).
Are you more blown up by a terrorist now than you were six years ago? Stephen Colbert's advice for Democrats and Republicans who want to win.
Almost two million earthquake survivors in Pakistan expected to face a second winter in makeshift shelters.
Op: Now that it's school fund-raising season, you better hope that's a Jehovah's Witness at the door.
Has Rupert Murdoch gone mushy in his old age (will he support Hillary?), or merely switched to the establishmentarian camp?
How to go from a New York singleton to a family of three (plus dog) in less than two years.
Now that Google has bought YouTube, let's all pray the media invents some better headlines.
Liberty dollar, legality be damned, seeks to break U.S. government's monopoly on currency.
Mad Dentist Removes Girl's Tongue. The sort of tabloid prose Robert Stone used to write before novels erupted.
Nigella Lawson goes shopping in a Gristede's and--oh, the horror--finds herself drawn to processed and store-made food.
In case you missed this weekend's open houses around New York, the podcast tour guides are still available.
In an unprecedented art-world response, Philippe de Montebello is building a Flume log ride at the Met, with a splashdown pool inside the Temple of Dendur.