New York’s currently: killing time, but multi-tasking

 Warren Buffett to give away fortune earlier than expected, and a large chunk is headed toward the Gates’ Foundation.

 Whatever happened to legislation for lobbyist spending reform? Congress appears to have let it quietly die.

 Senate Democrats bristle at claims they want to pull out of Iraq early, say they’re thinking like generals.

 After more than a decade of decline, Iraqi school enrollment is on the rise.

 For sale this summer only! TMN T-shirts by Witold Riedel.

 Opolis is a giant-scale miniature city in 13 blocks.

 UC Santa Cruz Chancellor leaps to death from 43-story building.

 Venice Biennale architecture symposium this year marked by fuzzy, oversized, sustainable sweater.

 Big scarf lets you enjoy your electronics away from the prying eyes of others.

 For women, dealing with flashers and gropers is an everyday part of the New York subway.

 Today’s Digest: the week in books by Robert Birnbaum.

 Now you can crash your Jetta into almost anything.

 I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Umberto Eco on operating systems.

 The history of typographical bleeping.

 Saddam Hussein launches hunger strike before lunch, ends it in time for dinner.

 Bruno, the first wild bear sighted in Germany since 1835, has been shot dead.

 Game: Shoot Bruno the Bear with a narcotic dart.

 This sufficed until the Middle Ages, when Aquinas translated a number of menus into Latin and the first really good oyster bars opened. Woody Allen on the philosophers’ delights.

 The 27 worst Family Feud answers ever.

 Build your own Orgone Accumulator. (Your own what?)

 Video: Scientology orientation video.