Headlines from December 8, 2006
- The remarkable 26-year saga of awarding a Pulitzer Prize to an unknown Iranian photographer (see photos).
- For the first time, more poor people live in suburbs than cities.
- Trying the knot between the dilemma of conflict diamonds and that engagement ring on your wife's finger.
- They favour seal carcasses but will eat almost anything--one was found with an entire caribou in its stomach. Arctic sharks attack Quebec.
- More Friday drink links than you can handle.
- Just in time for your date tonight, the number for Milk & Honey.
- Sarah Hepola embraces her nostalgic side for yesteryear's videos in today's Digest.
- Wodehouse characters, drawn.
- Winners and losers in today's news.
- Everything you--and artistic Norwegian strippers--need to know about photobooths.
- Video of the amazing Time Fountain, in which dripping water moves in slow motion.
- Someone actually created a program to detect cats walking across your keyboard.
- Video not for cat lovers: Effect of Mescaline Analogues on Behavior of Cats.
- New York gains monitoring powers over out-of-state gun dealers
- Op: Before engaging Iran, we need a plan, and we should figure out what it will cost us.
- Republican switcher and former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick dies at 80.
- Jazz pianist and bandleader Jay McShann dies at 90; WKCR is doing an excellent all-day McShann broadcast.
- Texas learns illegal immigrants aren't one big money drain.
- Virginia grade school celebrates the pagan history behind the holidays, reports WorldNetDaily.
- Church Marketing Sucks: a blog to frustrate, educate and motivate the church to communicate clearly.
- Number 16 in John Darnielle's series "30 Short Poems About My Favorite Black Metal Band."
- Canada still loves more people than we do.
- Polygamy debate rages in Indonesia, too, after popular cleric marries second wife.
- The source for fertile Russian imaginations found.
- Video: Sonic Youth's "Schizophrenia" as sung by the elderly members of Young@Heart.
- For classical-music dorks, and everyone else: hilarious trumpet bloopers.
- Top 50 music videos of 2006.
- All the "best of 2006" lists you'll ever need.
- And all you need to know about December's movie releases.