New York’s currently: eight million complaints about the air-conditioning

 Iraqi government commits to interim constitution providing Kurdish veto power, but Shiite leaders vow to excise the clause next year.

 New poll: Uncertainty over the general direction of the country shifts U.S. voter support to Kerry.

 European elections begin today; in response to Blair’s Iraq stance, Labour predicts a third-place finish in local councils.

 Violating both Geneva Conventions and patient confidentiality, interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were given access to prisoner medical records.

 New Ken Burns documentary about the first American road trip.

 Through notebook doodlings, diary entries, and recollections, a fascinating history of being a teenager in the sixties.

 Now if they only had an InstaBookAdvance… Go from Word doc to bound paperback with the instant book-printing machine.

 Kerry wanted to delay accepting his nomination so he could continue raising campaign money. So what?

 The construction and reconstruction of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

 Photo of striking daycare workers walking across the Brooklyn Bridge.

 Ten foods you should never eat.

 Finding a perfect steak at New York strip clubs. And: The same, down Austin way.

 Urban planning worst-case scenarios. [via things]

 Susan Orlean recalls a getaway to a “mountain chalet” that was really “a dingy A-frame, mud-brown, damp, afflicted with an air of unrelieved gloom” in the suburbs.

 Frequently asked questions at the Museum of Funeral Customs

 New York disaster-moviegoers have nothing to fear, say scientists, we’re only halfway through our warming cycle.

 Maud Newton interviews Brigid Hughes of the Paris Review on new writers (good) and slush piles (also good).

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