Headlines from January 10, 2007
- Somebody is bugging American defense contractors' pocket change, but we're not pointing fingers, Canada.
- Brilliant: The Feltron 2006 Annual Report.
- Ten percent of the population experiences heart palpitations when the creator of Lost talks about the new Star Trek movie he's filming.
- The vaginal photoplethysmograph has been around for several decades. Sex research instruments are about as terrifying as one would expect.
- "To Americans, the 12-inch-round stool won't work anymore--now it's 18 inches. Call it the bum factor."
- Squatters' rights can garden you right out of a driveway.
- Today's long read: Are new search technologies in violation of our rights, or are they actually protecting them?
- Incrementally we are melting. We're all melting.
- Our girl Nancy loves the environment, though, and bans smoking in the Speaker's Lobby.
- Native Christians in predominantly Islamic countries are leaving in droves -- although some in Iraq want to establish their own autonomous zone, Kurdistan-style.
- In today's Digest, Rosecrans Baldwin experiences total recall via mp3.
- Control, a.k.a. "that Joy Division movie," will premiere in the first half of this year--set photos are here.
- How we think about an increase in the minimum wage depends on whether we're the ones paying it or the ones being paid--and the answers aren't so obvious.
- "The East Coast... did not warm nearly as much as rest of globe over the 20th century, and that's where the decision-making is going on."
- Surprising to think it took this long: People are now feeding Prozac to their pets.
- James Brown still unburied, rape case still pending.
- Iwao Takamoto, designer of Scooby Doo and co-director of the original Charlotte's Web, died on Monday.
- Appearing tomorrow at the Union Square Barnes & Noble: David Lynch and Au Revoir Simone.
- Interesting new service lets you search ship passenger lists between 1890 and 1960.
- Old, but doesn't cease to be amazing: How to take your tug under a bridge.