Headlines from June 26, 2008
- "The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass...in a horror version of Weekend With Bernie, handcuffed to a corpse." Republicans endorse Obama.
- On the incredibly intricate wiretapping legislation that passed today, and why it's worse than you think.
- Nicaraguan leftists fight to reclaim the sombrero as a political symbol.
- Crafting the "Dream Prius": the secret subculture of "ecomodding."
- There are more semicolons in the New York Review of Books personals than balls in a gay bar.
- Video: Honda's Asimo robot directs the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
- Internet to loosen regulations on domain names, presenting huge opportunity for "cybersquatters" to buy up valuable URLs.
- In China, netizens mob against immoral bloggers, humiliate them, have them arrested.
- Maggie Mason's guide to the best sporks on the internet.
- Early paper-and-pen concept sketches for web apps like Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo.
- Tarantino "a real happy dude" after finishing script for new "in-your-face" WWII movie.
- New laws result in adults afraid to talk to children for fear of pedophilia labeling.
- Video: "Thou shalt not think any male over the age of 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a pedophile, some people are just nice."
- Supreme Court rules that the line of execution drops somewhere between treason and child rape.
- Also yesterday, the Court ended two decades of litigation, deciding Exxon owes $500 million--of what was once $5 billion--for the Valdez spill.
- Pending the verification of nuclear documents, the U.S. is set to remove N. Korea from terror list.
- In his own way, Dr. No was something of a pioneer in nuclear energy. McCain calls Obama the "Dr. No" of energy policy.
- The candidates offered hope for a new political discourse--instead it's the same old, negative campaigning.
- Seeking to reverse the beard's reputation in Japan, Shick and Braun educate on what beards look like--and how to trim them.
- M.T.A. drops free lifetime passes for board members, holds firm they did nothing illegal.
- In this week's digital ramble, Rosecrans Baldwin detects acts of culture jamming.
- Halfway through its summer blockbusters, Hollywood reflects on what's selling, and what movie about killer trees is not.
- The entire Nuyorican Poets Cafe movement emerged from a back pocket in Patti's black jeans. Moody on Smith.
- Troy McClure's résumé.
- From 2003, Matthew Baldwin explains the 10 steps to crafting a bulletproof résumé.
- Kermit Love, co-creator of Big Bird, other Muppets, dies at age 91.