Headlines from October 29, 2007
- Analysis of bloggers' responses to White House's merely semi-secret request for bunker-busters perhaps bound for Iran.
- Print for tonight's commute: The secret history of the impending war with Iran that the White House doesn't want you to know.
- Alert, stereotypical boomers: restless David Brooks has sired the "Tip of Your Tongue" decade.
- Just when the U.K. slips the stereotype, France signs on for "patriotically bellicose but still America's big fan."
- Comic: The new gay stereotype is Mr. Family Values.
- From TAL's "Mapping" episode, a Raleigh cartographer's odd maps of his neighborhood, e.g., where the power lines are.
- Former Beavis & Butthead writer says the only acceptable way to own a Ramones T-shirt is to have earned it.
- Identical twins earn reunion after 35 years of separation due to secret social experiment.
- Thirty illnesses, sorted according to whether or not you can eat the victims.
- Afternoon games: The tall stump, extreme hangman.
- Extreme, middling, and everyday figures to expect in this week's news: Madrid bombers, IMF boss, Nepal's king.
- Democracy stirs while the king sleeps in the South Pacific's last monarchy, Tonga.
- PDF study of why the trend for preferring sons to daughters is reversing in South Korea.
- Video in case you missed it: Children engineers wreck havoc with railroad.
- Iran reacts to U.S. sanctions by shifting trade to the East--analysts says the move likely will buffer them against economic turmoil.
- "You leave home and it's safer here than it is at home." In Iraq, California soldiers try to keep tabs on their families.
- Running out of willing diplomats for Iraq, State Dept. decides to draft a few good bureaucrats.
- Men arrested for blackmailing the British royal family with sex, lies, videotape. Related: Royal scandals down the years.
- A survey of English cuisine's wonders: black pudding, tripe, and wild blackberry pie (worse than it sounds).
- From 2005: British ice cream maker introduces black pudding flavor.
- Why the U.S. inaction in Darfur? Bush's reticence to invade another Muslim country, for starters.
- Japanese drivers have fallen in love with Hummers, but Tokyo's narrow streets can't accommodate the seven-foot-wide vehicle.
- "You notice Steven Spielberg cut this boring stuff out of 'Indiana Jones.'" Profile of a meteorite hunter who's in it for the treasure, not the science.
- Photos: Jennifer Loeber takes pictures of nude Brooklynites--their Red Hooks, Cobble Hills, and all. (NSFW)
- Violent babies and toddlers simply lack people skills.
- You know all those right-wing emails your dad keeps sending you? MyRightWingDad.net does.
- Audio: Looking for ghosts in a New Orleans cemetery where the dead aren't six feet under--they're more like six inches.