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Headlines from June 6, 2008
- While you were watching Obama: details from secret negotiations for new security arrangements in Iraq.
- Hamas does not differentiate between the two presidential candidates. Hamas "unendorses" Obama.
- Nas releases new song about Obama (listen here).
- Why is Hollywood applying bronzer to white actors to cast ethnic characters?
- List of every brand featured or name-dropped in Sex and the City: The Movie (see also: list of science piñatas inappropriate for children).
- Gay and getting married, and planning a lot of food? The Times dining section wants to know!
- Brazilian soldier comes out of the closet in national magazine, is arrested for desertion.
- Burma's most famous comedian arrested for trying to deliver aid to cyclone victims.
- A storm in Washington unleashes a mighty criticism of what the Post doesn't understand about the web.
- "Children at play" signs and the like are absolutely ineffective. Q&A with traffic expert.
- Fewer British teens drink, but the ones who do are drinking enough to make up for it.
- Raunchy German chick lit novel ignites controversy about sex, hygiene, and the modern German woman.
- Related: German John and Jane Doe known as Max and Erika Mustermann.
- Video of old computer hardware playing Radiohead song.
- Print for the commute: Surfing's secret Austro-Hungarian roots.
- At Guantánamo tribunal, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Sept. 11 defendants ask for death sentence, martyrdom.
- Clinton, Obama meet in D.C., perhaps to discuss how to rule the galaxy as father and son.
- Photos: Growing up Star Wars.
- How demographic groups voted in the Democratic primaries--courtesy of a fascinating interactive graphic.
- "Have you ever tried to hack into my typewriter? It is very secure." Why compute when you could typewrite?
- Related: Michael Erard pays tribute to the Olympia manual of his youth.
- On the fist bump--its origin (superhero cartoons) and enduring popularity (easier than a high-five).
- Lincoln was clean-shaven when elected, and other reasons potential presidents shouldn't grow a beard.
- Brooks: Lincoln had self-won maturity and a sense of smallness--it'd be nice to have another president like that.
- If death gives meaning to our lives, the goal of medical immortality poses a quandary.
- "I almost croaked many times." Ballpark gives away all-expense-paid funeral to one lucky fan.
- Photos: In Vietnam, 30-plus-year-old U.S. bombshells act as garden troughs, school bells, and home decor.
- Street art with a live snail canvas.