Headlines from July 30, 2008
- Map of ties between Pakistan's spies and militants perhaps "the bluntest American warning" to Pakistan since Sept. 11.
- McCain scolded for being open to taxes; Obama razzed for proclaiming he's "a symbol" of America's best traditions.
- Long his party's presumptive nominee, Obama is now becoming its presumptuous nominee.
- Print for the commute: The economic paradoxes of contemporary art.
- Why you no longer need to worry about paper vs. plastic, or running the A/C in your car.
- Explaining why "the user experience of driving a car is often so shitty."
- Print for the commute: Charles Van Doren's personal account of the Quiz Show scandal, and his life since.
- Once I find a way of making men give birth, or at least lactate, I'll devote myself to abolishing the need for sleep.
- Ten more weird and bizarre drinks from Japan.
- Who needs brass goggles when you can have wall size projector screens in bucky domes? The Eamespunk Manifesto.
- Ode to a favorite cocktail: "The Manhattan encourages modifications, riffs, virtuoso performances."
- Beware: Six vacation photos that can kill.
- For four days, McCain's camp has attacked Obama for an alleged soldier snub; for four days, they've had no evidence of it.
- In New York, MetroCard machines continue to deny credit, debit cards, cause mayhem for a second straight day.
- Olympic Committe lifts ban, will allow two Iraqi atheletes to compete in Beijing.
- Sen. Ted Stevens indicted on felony charges of failing to disclose gifts, including home renovations, furnishings, and a Land Rover.
- Deindustrialisation in U.S. cities has the affluent moving to city centers, trading the outskirts to the less fortunate.
- Pariahs in the Pyrenees: the last untouchables in Europe.
- Even as we rip down walls, we must build bridges. When writing about China, writing in clichés still has value.
- Video: Give us today our daily terror.
- Born in the same year, George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh were more similar than their writing would have you think.
- Orwell's diary entries will be published, 70 years to the day after he wrote them, as a blog.
- "It makes me feel free" From bootleggers to world-champion presidential advisers, Senegal is mad for Scrabble.
- Following the lawsuit that shut down Scrabulous on Facebook, hackers disable Hasbro's official version of the game.
- "I Made Tea" by Joe Davis--a telescopic story.