Headlines from March 14, 2008
- On measuring the inconsistency of McCain's voting record.
- On boycotting the vote in Iran: "I have voted once in 30 years, and that was for the creation of an Islamic Republic," says an old gentleman. "I'm not going to get fucked again."
- On "rank-link imbalance"--people good with mentor and bosses, but bad with friends and lovers.
- Print for the commute: The department of pre-crime.
- You could also print this enormous paper on protecting the internet, but that wouldn't protect many trees.
- How to turn a profit as the world gets warmer: by envisioning the carbon market.
- Elizabeth McCracken decides between Laura Lippman and Junot DÍaz in today's ToB.
- What is the effect of all those prescription drugs ending up in the water supply?
- Will Borders turning books cover-side-out sell more titles, or turn them into Froot Loops?
- Happy birthday: Kottke.org turns 10 today.
- Only 20 known veterans of World War I remain.
- Touring the Lower East Side with Richard Price, discussing his latest novel.
- How to map out the sentence, "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
- Rosecrans Baldwin on the viral videos circulating around his Paris office.
- Video: An abridged history of American centric wafare.
- Prepare for battle: PowerPoint karaoke.
- E.P.A. reveals Bush intervened, weakened its new air pollution standards.
- Thanks for the laughs guys. This was great. Obama campaign responds to Clinton email.
- Tax returns mean an increase in stolen identities--Girl Scout troops prove a bevy of potential targets.
- In zoos across North America, gorillas are dying of heart disease, and diagnostic testing is a delicate procedure.
- Clock preservationists are out to save the cuckoo population.
- Mailbag: A reader in Russia responds to Elizabeth Kiem's election piece.
- Making art from books; also see: "Pulp Friction" by Thomas Allen.
- The normally low-key Paris Book Fair becomes a political hotbed, as countries boycott the presence of Peres.
- The power of our internet children: Kids today--we're telling you!--don't read, don't write, don't care about anything farther in front of them than their iPods.
- "Sequins & Scandals": inside the corrupt, dishonest, and structurally perverse world of figure skating.
- The 20 biggest record company blunders and their unintended consequences.
- It is mostly legal to paint your car like a police cruiser.
- Video: Free-flying wearing only a wingsuit.
- Archie does "Common People."