New York’s currently: making lists

 Ambushes, firefights create deadly weekend in Iraq.

 Bush secretly travels to Iraq, surprises troops with Thanksgiving appearance, and asks Americans to volunteer to help military.

 Japanese diplomats ambushed, killed in Iraq.

 U.S. to release 100 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, with more to follow.

 Fixing potholes, eliminating street noise, and collecting data with New York’s 311.

 British authorities may have thwarted holiday shoe-bomb terror plot.

 ‘With the pine trees, the antennas are placed outside the pole and are only partially disguised by the branches, but with the cactus, the antennas are actually hidden in the trunk.’ Hiding cell-phone towers.

 A look into the world of smugglers who operate in radioactive, ‘dirty’ bombs.

 The music industry would like to sell shorter albums.

 At the expense of its own workers, Wal-Mart takes over the U.S. Related: Florida woman trampled in rush for $29 DVD players at Wal-Mart on the same day the corporation set a new one-day sales record.

 Harpers.org completely redone (and pretty incredibly indexed) with the Ftrain source code.

 You’re not getting that iPod: few gift-buyers check online wish lists.

 The partnership between Song Airlines and Kate and Andy Spade came both from shared aesthetics and a shared P.R. agency.

 ‘Total Regency freakout. Why did she go to the country? Why?’ Designers discuss the sensibilities of Green Acres and other cable reruns.

 People attribute quotes to Abraham Lincoln as they see fit.

 Winners: Englishman learns he’s a Canadian tribal chief with thousands of acres of land, and Chicago family wins lottery, accidentally throws out winning ticket, retrieves it thanks to garbage workers’ strike.

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We’re still giving thanks to the holiday’s two generous donors