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Headlines for Wednesday, May 31, 2006
New York’s currently: all up in your trees
Bush names Goldman Sachs chair (and treehugger) Henry Paulson as Treasury secretary; Paulson doesn’t mind the $37 million pay cut.
War in Darfur now finding its victims through disease, dehydration; peace in the region looks unlikely as treaty with remaining rebel groups remains unsigned.
Former P.O.W. receives note from the Iraqi colonel who interrogated him 15 years ago.
When children’s BMIs appear on their report cards, the war on childhood obesity may gone too far.
Acoustics expert discerns the Mona Lisa’s voice. (Listen here.)
Remains found at Roman Forum that date to 300 years before the founding of Rome; nice pillows discovered in Egyptian coffin.
Andrew Womack on the week in mp3s.
Forget PacManhattan, NYU students are into life-sized Super Mario Bros.—see video here.
PC vs. Mac debate as experienced in New York newsroom.
The best cover songs, as selected by the music blogosphere.
Batwoman not killed by League of Assassins, now batting for the other team.
Video: The Hullabaloo Dancers dance to Batman; The Real World: Metropolis.
Seeing web sites as graphs, and you can make your own here.
About those unreadable characters you have to type to get access to web sites: Nobody can read them.
Headlines for Tuesday, May 30, 2006
New York’s currently: suddenly summer
Anti-U.S. rioting blows up in Kabul with at least 14 dead; death urged on dog washers.
Afghanistan: the sleeper crisis of the summer, and the new battleground between India and Pakistan.
Indonesian survivors desperate for aid; Guantanamo hunger strikers now number 75.
New York optimistically imagined for 2016: the “it” ‘hood around the High Line; multiple trams ferrying commuters.
The New Yorker caps its Meg & Jason reporting.
Unearthed email reveals what life was like in 1995.
Two expert skydivers collide, one dies; first-time skydiver slips from her harness, dies.
Soccer used by Europeans to further ostracize Iran.
Former top Navy lawyer says either we care about detainee abuse or risk corrupting our heritage.
National Spelling Bee competition begins this Wednesday; where did the term “spelling bee” come from?
Inside Brooklyn’s indie publishing scene.
Attention book buyers: “Bestseller” and “staff pick” are labels easily bought and sold.
Today’s Digest on TMN: Birnbaum on the week’s books.
If advertising is now consumer-generated, are brands threatened? And why do consumers want in?
Emotions contagious like germs, say scientists.
One in six Arizona adults had their identities stolen in the last five years.
The all-purpose, all-celebrity graduation speech, perhaps lacking in awesomeness.
The video game industry has no indie market, and gamers are losing out.
Case for Ernest Pignon-Ernest’s street art as high art (see images).
Mp3s: The world needs more pump organs.
New Apple store’s fancy elevator gets spinning beach ball.
Headlines for Friday, May 26, 2006
TMN will be off Mon., 29 May, in observance of Memorial Day—see you on Tuesday.
New York’s currently: crafting a swimsuit out of anything
Hamas withdraws Gaza security force after 10 days of clashes with regular police and military units.
New Yorkers flood 311 with concerns about yesterday’s fighter flyovers.
Enron ex-employees have mixed reactions, some feel their work has been “invalidated.”
Nobody knows what caused the electrical short that shut down trains on the Eastern seaboard; passengers take their anger out on the bathrooms.
Woody Allen ticked his later, unfunny movies are being edited for television.
In today’s Digest: Sarah Hepola on the week’s best videos.
“Harry Potter-style” invisibility cloak only five years away.
Pope coming to town means no alcohol, contraceptive, or tampon ads…and certainly no ice cream.
Arizona finally outlaws bestiality.
“But the wind farm looks like modernist sculpture!” Exactly. Aesthetic arguments for and against wind farms.
Walkout-inducing selections at Cannes, including Sofia Coppola’s boo-inducing Marie Antoinette.
Cate Blanchett to play Bob Dylan in upcoming biopic.
“If you wore a shirt that says abortion is homicide or abortion kills kids, then that provokes discussion…and that’s what we really want.” Christian rock activists put their faith in T-shirts.
Have a wonderful weekend: Studies show daily drinking lowers heart disease risk in men, smoking marijuana not a cause of lung cancer.
For those who refuse to wait: a map to Shake Shack alternatives.
How to make beer-battered, deep-fried, pepperoni pizza—not that you should.
Headlines for Thursday, May 25, 2006
New York’s currently: 28-hour-ing
Pelosi and Hastert demand the return of Jefferson’s yanked files.
Yanking a congressman: more a matter of etiquette than constitutional principle.
You can’t compare it to the Senate floor. Bill Frist operates on a gorilla.
Passengers bravely take down plane showing Big Momma’s House 2.
The case for abolishing library fines.
Thirty years later, U.S. beats France again in wine contest, though it wasn’t without difficulties.
Progress but no punch as Security Council tries to decide on Iran package.
Soldiers grieve when their bomb-defusing robots blow up.
Female chatbot will help you quit smoking.
Photos of the 1932 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
On Bill Buford’s obsessive love for Batali, and Childs’s revolution grown in France.
Top 50 conservative rock songs, chosen by the National Review.
Links for getting started in aerial archaeology.
Artistic interpretations of literary figures.
Philatelic detective reunites 1847 letter with postmaster provisional “Alexandria Blue Boy.”
Video: Implosion of a nuclear plant.
Minute-by-minute account from inside the machine that’s The Price Is Right.
When they catch and cuff your brain, the jerk even tries to bust in the cop-car window. This is your brain on drugs.
Headlines for Wednesday, May 24, 2006
New York’s currently: speeding up so we can speed back down
Iran asks U.S. for direct talks on its nuclear program—and that letter still goes unanswered.
Purported bin Laden audio recording denies Moussaoui’s role in Sept. 11 attacks.
Largehearted Boy’s “Book Notes” with TMN’s Kevin Guilfoile.
After a nine-day fast-food road trip, Frank Bruni can pin a Whataburger from miles out.
Thirty-five hundred Germans arrested for file sharing.
In today’s Digest, Rosecrans Baldwin on the week in Mp3s.
The Simpsons for the blind [mp3]; knock-off Tiny Toons for the deaf [mpg]
Seventy-five years of Soviet posters.
The future of building design should be A/C-free, says architect Richard Rogers.
A (not really) secret Flickr message.
One’s natural reaction to arm-twisters of any description is to wriggle free, turn around, and kick them in the pentacles. Anthony Lane hits the Da Vinci Code where it hurts.
Headlines for Tuesday, May 23, 2006
New York’s currently: reasserting itself
Past week’s fighting in Afghanistan “most intense” since 2001; dozens killed, concerns about strengthened Taliban.
Corruption rampant throughout Iraq.
Former CIA bin Laden unit chief on why intelligence in Iran is so poor.
Burger King disgusts Muslim customers with poor cone design.
Studs Terkel and other Chicago plaintiffs sue for fear the government’s out to get them.
Plastic packaging out to get you.
Identity information of 26 million veterans stolen.
Alternative to regime change involves nose-holding as long as nuclear arms aren’t nuzzled.
Video: Follow-up interview with BBC’s “Wrong Guy.”
Germans are funnier than Brits.
High-profile attacks and plans by neo-Nazis worry German leaders over World Cup safety.
The obsession and lifestyle of tracking terrorists online: inside the SITE institute.
America is turning 400—who knew?
The troubles in applying math to measuring basketball prowess.
Male parts used to attract females become disproportionately large in most species that boast them.
Finnish polka proves improbably addictive.
Everclear’s Alexakis once promised to “buy you a new life,” now withdraws offer.
Caught some allusions to The Odyssey. Nice. Feedback from Joyce’s submission of Ulysses to his creative-writing workshop.
Lagos scammers, aka “Yahoo! millionaires,” make millions off “too gullible” white people.
Video: Bad trip on Berlin’s U-Bahn.
Headlines for Monday, May 22, 2006
New York’s currently: wishing the radiator would snap back on
U.S. proposes anti-missile sites in Europe that could intercept warheads from Iran, pressures European banks to reduce Iranian activities.
Joint U.S.-Turkey military exercises to focus on preventing nuclear technology from reaching Iran.
Nagin wins reelection in New Orleans, promises recovery, opportunity.
Shaky hands, phantom typing are signs you may be addicted to the internet.
Ian Frazier, again with the coyotes, this time an interview with the one caught in Central Park.
In certain messes, the tradition of chiding or poking good-natured fun through limericks and ditties is practiced. Army-regulation jokes.
Manhattan mugger robs deliverymen of cash, food, and bikes, then forces them to strip naked.
“What we’re doing is sort of like putting a wing on the Taj Mahal.” The very uphill battle of building near Thomas Jefferson’s original UVA campus.
“Death coaches” gives support to the grieving—and could alter the face of hospice care.
For those who can’t remember Old Testament laws, LEGO storyboards can help.
Sunny Delight poisons spring, fish.
When asked if he would consider giving [the ball] to Bonds, Snyder declined with a mild expletive.
American television places characters in coffee shops, but Bollywood sets scenes in call centers.
Berkeley’s “Naked Guy” dies in jail.
Mp3s: Many bands, many covers of “Love Will Tear Us Apart.”
Video: Garbage day plus maniacal laughter.
Headlines for Friday, May 19, 2006
New York’s currently: constantly calibrating for marginally better outcomes
Iraq’s middle class doing everything it can to flee.
Senate votes English as the “national language.”
Even Joseph Gannascoli doesn’t know how GaVito dies, but he’d like to keep paying his mortgage.
Forests disappearing from the roof of the world.
Today in TMN’s new Digest feature: Videos of the Week.
U.S. should close any secret “war on terror” detention facilities, plus Guantanamo, says U.N.
Novelist thinks people shrug 10 times more than they actually do.
Airline ticket stub, nabbed from trash can, reveals wild amount of passenger info in 15 minutes.
Alexandria, Egypt has the world’s worst theme park, Fantazy Land.
McCartney and wife blame media for divorce; CNN effectively proves their point.
Video: Game shows are better played in libraries.
Decade by decade, the history of Archie comics shows a strong dislike for teen culture.
Research suggests early humans got busy with chimps; some scientists have trouble imagining the coupling.
Russian mothers prefer lack of second child to cash.
Insider’s report from last night’s NYC Beard & Moustache Championship.
Report with pictures from the third Dashanzi International Art Festival in Beijing.
Heroic computer dies to save world from master’s thesis.
4,512 Ph.D. students died to make blog about synthesis.
Chef Masayoshi “Masa” Takayama tests 10 Santoku knives straight from the box.
Video: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments.
Headlines for Thursday, May 18, 2006
New York’s currently: not walking through that bunch of pigeons
A peace treaty could clear the path toward new nuclear talks between North Korea and the U.S.
Hamas deploys Palestinian security force—a move Abbas vetoed last month.
Conflicts between Taliban fighters and police in Afghanistan take a sharp rise.
“Virtual fence” of surveillance technology to be assembled at U.S-Mexico border; real, 370-mile-long fence will also be built.
The final chromosome in the human genome has been sequenced—here’s what that means.
It’s like Netflix for wine: Introducing Cork’d, the social network for wine lovers.
Video: How J. Robert Lennon writes his novels.
By addressing eye fungus one region at a time, Bausch & Lomb fueled its own scandal.
“Today’s really a good day to be a millionaire, but it’s a bad day if you want to be a millionaire.” Bush approves embattled tax cuts.
Inflation is up, the Dow is (way) down, and the economy’s growth party got crashed by “an uninvited drunken uncle.”
Of course, all of gentrified Brooklyn is somewhat similar. It’s mostly white. It’s mostly partial to some form of indie rock. The war between Park Slope and Williamsburg.
Coming soon: Neptune-class planets you can live on, possibly.
Learning to draw: today’s lesson—salt shakers and pepper grinders.
The capital-markets division of Barclays Plc could be the Red Hot Chili Peppers; chaotic in the 1990s, gained some focus in the early years of this decade. Matching banks to bands.
Tracking the trend called Morrissey.
Video: 37 short Fluxus Films (1962-1970).
Headlines for Wednesday, May 17, 2006
New York’s currently: hoping for more peaks, fewer valleys
White House agrees to brief intel committees on wiretapping operation.
A moving defense of selling crack.
Nigerian senate rejects amendment to allow Olusegun a third term.
Somalia’s prime minister blames secret U.S. support of warlords for clashes in Mogadishu.
A.U. soldiers in Sudan hamstrung by limited mandate, few troops, bad equipment.
If you love Russia, you have to love Godunov. Condoleezza Rice’s 10 favorite musical works.
Senate immigration overhaul stands test, but House won’t budge for Bush, and nobody’s happy with the GOP.
Op: Bush’s border army is classic Clintonian sleight of hand.
Photos of female Israeli soldiers.
Schedule of events for upcoming Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival. (See also the upcoming New York Beard & Moustache Championship.)
The history of the yellow legal pad.
Playboy’s 25 sexiest novels includes Wind-Up Bird.
Massive soccer corruption scandal horrifies but doesn’t shock Italian fans.
Today in TMN’s new Digest: The week’s best mp3s.
Mp3 bloggers choose their favorite visceral moments.
New incentive package for Iran includes light-water nuclear reactor for civilian use.
California city won’t rename street after Trump unless he renames his golf club after the city.
Retirement tips from retirees.
TMN’s Kevin Guilfoile reading tonight, Schuler Books in Michigan.
New York cab driver lets his fares influence where he finds his burgers.
Op: No matter how much you love your favorite classic racist novel, it still may need to be discarded.
Central Park to sport free WiFi by summer.
Video: Twenty movies digitized from the Lang Papers, touring the mid-century Southwest.
Headlines for Tuesday, May 16, 2006
New York’s currently: grilling reality stars
Op: In immigration address, Bush searches for the middle ground that’s already on the Senate floor. [Transcript here.]
Bush disappoints those on both sides of the immigration debate—yes, that would be the middle ground.
Fox tries to allay fears in Mexico of military action along the border; few buy it.
And now: What about Canada?
Many believe Karl Rove has been indicted—and denials of the rumor only help to cement the belief.
Five-hundred-pound German bomb from World War II found in River Mersey.
Stanley Kunitz, former poet laureate, dies at 100.
Saddam Hussein finally reaches indictment, which may bring him one major step closer to execution.
What would happen to the bumper-sticker industry? Boulder may unveil “hate hotline.”
Biotech firm makes rice that could eradicate diarrhea—and it’s engineered with a human gene.
BBC interviews technology expert, gets taxi driver instead. [Video here.] Update: He wasn’t a cabbie, and he wanted an I.T. job.
Major League Baseball wants fantasy league companies to pay for players’ names and stats.
Scottsdale residents express concern over local branch of Vegas eatery, the Pink Taco; no reaction from Tucson about its new nude dude ranch.
What do teens do if nobody smokes and drinks anymore? Prescription drugs.
Pee-Wee Herman warns on the dangers of crack cocaine.
Headlines for Monday, May 15, 2006
New York’s currently: got its fingers crossed on a number of fronts
Bush to call for thousands of National Guard troops to play border patrol.
Iraqi police, often suspected in Sunni killings, under close watch by U.S. troops.
Bosnian Indiana Jones insists rocks are world’s largest pyramid.
News events to anticipate in the week ahead.
Memorial competition winner Michael Arad on Ground Zero’s astounding costs and conflicts.
The story of Yankees Stadium’s Freddy Schuman and his good-luck pan and spoon.
Popular Mechanics do-it-yourself projects.
Mystery disease sprouts in southern Texas—lesions, tarry sweat, sprouting fibers.
American Photo’s best photographers of the internet.
The history of Orrin Hatch making music, with photos.
Updike: The sensations that Houellebecq gives us are not nutritive.
Video: Pseudo-Corky stars in pre-Guffman You Wouldn’t Believe Our World.
Sony’s strategy to co-opt Christians for the release of The Da Vinci Code.
Eric Umansky interviews Iran observer Afshin Molavi.
Podcast now available for WNYC’s superb “Radio Lab” program.
The Port Authority does not enjoy being insulted by E-ZPass hoaxers.
In light of proper thank-you note writing, “Thanks for the Intervention.”
TMN announces new section, “Digest,” with weekly round-ups of books, mp3s, and web videos.
Video: Siskel and Ebert really didn’t like Protestants.
Headlines for Friday, May 12, 2006
New York’s currently: breeding carrier pigeons, learning smoke signals
“Considerable circumstantial evidence” now links al Qaeda to the July 7 London bombings.
Men lost at sea text for help.
How low can it go? The Decider’s approval rating hits 29 percent.
Pelosi says if Dems win control of House in November, they won’t seek impeachment.
“It’s so easy to say yes. The government sings a patriotic song, and you want to do what’s right.” Somewhere between lawmakers and your privacy are very confused technology companies.
Islamic religious leaders call on Muslim countries to provide aid to Palestinians.
Egyptian police club pro-democracy demonstrators, as well as journalists covering the event.
South Korean scientist with fake stem-cell work now charged with real fraud and embezzlement.
Tired of Viswanathan getting the spotlight, Frey admits his sequel is fiction.
Soraya, 2004 Latin Grammy winner, breast cancer crusader, dies at 37.
Neil MacLennan remembers the fun he and his friends had as boys playing in the funny candy-colored swamps and ponds near the ballfields. Mass. town faced with cancer fears.
China gets domestic Wikipedia, to be censored by hosting company.
What it’s like to discover your favorite cartoon hero is your favorite gay cartoon hero.
Dean Young, “Blondie” comic-strip cartoonist, to open sandwich chain.
Better than a liger, hunters nab half grizzly and half polar bear.
Video: Roxy Music performing “Remake/Remodel” live in 1973.
Headlines for Thursday, May 11, 2006
New York’s currently: serving in the rain
NSA building “world’s largest database” to contain every call ever made within the U.S.
Skinny physicians in love evangelize thinning America.
A.M. Rosenthal dies at 84. George Lutz dies at 59.
The U.S. is not publishing more books than ever—in 2005 it published 18,000 fewer titles than 2004.
Confessions of an eBay store worker.
U.K. to pay off the last of its WWII loans from the U.S. in December.
America’s fastest-growing minority; Russia’s fast-approaching extinction.
Russia to boost its military strength to counter the U.S., aka “Comrade Wolf.”
Op: Continue Russia-bashing through the megaphone, Westies, and witness cheering Kremlin hard-liners.
Drunk monkeys behave like humans.
Study: Human intoxication does not transform alligators into docile creatures that enjoy wrestling.
Older pop critics in print use Pitchfork to maintain credibility.
Nice overview of main players in Norway’s death metal scene, including mp3s.
Star of Star & Buc Wild fired after threatening to “R. Kelly” rival DJ’s daughter.
More girls in a congressman’s family, more likely he is to vote liberal on “women’s issues.”
Why doesn’t my belly button heal over?
Mother bakes laxative cookies for teacher; teacher passes cookies out to students.
Apples appear to be besting oranges.
Former and current presidents Bush want trifecta, say Jeb would be great in the White House.
Those crazy Itals! “Contentiously (No Surprise), Italians Name New President.”
Time still left to see Lee Mullican’s paintings, or Army of Shadows.
Attention copycats! Tomorrow is the TMN “Sloppy Seconds With Opal Mehta” Contest deadline!
Video: The original Bottle Rocket.
Headlines for Wednesday, May 10, 2006
New York’s currently: stuck somewhere between 20 and 30 percent gray
Is support for this regime in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ (PBUH) or Moses (PBUH) or liberal values? The letter Bush received from President Ahmadinejad; more on “PBUH.”
U.S., Europe to reach out to Iran with more carrots than exploding carrots, for now.
In Baghdad, Sunnis form neighborhood militias to guard against Shiite police death squads.
Immigrant advocates in U.S. want 1 million new citizens before November elections.
New Yorkers! Prepare for a hurricane, because… you haven’t for a while.
Armored suits look goofy; bionic suits offer super-strength.
“The crashes were shot in one take, using real stunt people and real, non-reinforced Jettas.” The story behind those Volkswagen ads.
Video: Scott Walker on the Culture Show. Amazing.
Video: Charlie White is pink for Adidas.
China wants Guantanamo-ians back from Albania.
German convicted of murder, not just “killing on demand,” and gets life in prison.
410-pound man (now about 300 pounds) arrives in New York after walking from Oceanside, Calif.
Space colony art from the 1970s.
As it turns out, women can look at a man’s face to determine his worthiness as a mate. (Mickey Rourke scored low.)
Photos: Matchbox cars, color-coded.
Headlines for Tuesday, May 9, 2006
New York’s currently: having the longest real spring in recent years
White House calls Iranian president’s letter a ploy. See also, when to lob.
At least 30 killed in Iraq yesterday.
Did former CIA executive director “Dusty” steer contracts to friend Wilkes, aka “bud of Duke”?
The monumental task of warning future generations.
A great deal of what purported to be humor related to the Director and his age. FBI report/review of Laugh-In episode.
Columbia students and street cons.
Final year of swim tests for U.N.C graduates; few colleges still require their grads to tread.
EBay is not where you want to spend a fortune on art.
Little Sister protects China’s internet.
I really believed that they were real, they were true. The case of the Nigerian letter scammers and a Massachusetts psychotherapist.
Nigerian mp3 blog, Naija Jams.
South Africa’s Zuma is cleared of rape, says he’s sorry he didn’t use a condom.
U.N. aid workers exploiting girls throughout Liberaia, says report.
Profile of Popbitch, the email newsletter we can’t seem to unsubscribe from.
A brief history of “baby-daddies” and “baby-mamas.”
Nature’s worst mothers: blood drinkers, infant abandoners, those who feed baby flesh to siblings.
Scientists pick the top 10 sci-fi films.
There are lots of causes for yawns, but why are yawns contagious?
The remarkably high-tech world of selling, scoring, and scamming World Cup tickets.
Front page Times articles soon to have, hopefully, fewer anecdotal leads.
Neil Diamond on his unlikely immigrant-rights theme song.
Sixty-four versions of “Stairway to Heaven.”
Headlines for Monday, May 8, 2006
New York’s currently: through fields of cattle, through fields of cane
Amid intense G.O.P. criticism, White House nominates Gen. Michael Hayden for CIA director role.
Iran to U.N.: If you tell us we can’t continue our nuclear program, we’re not listening.
Rove riles Republicans with rumblings about losing control of Congress, though the chances of that kind of shift are slim compared to 12 years ago.
Go-Betweens singer Grant McLennan, 48, died in his sleep on Saturday.
Judge rules in favor of Computer over Corps in Apple vs. Apple trademark case.
Video: Thug-loving Jesus.
Fred Flintstone never made a lot of money. His name was never in the tablets. He was not the finest cartoon character ever drawn. Flintstone, through the pages of history.
TMN’s David Leite and Linda Avery, proprietors of Leite’s Culinaria, win 2006 James Beard Award for Food Website.
Chinese village gets divorces to get free apartments; Spanish town can’t get a date to save its life—but it will have to.
Consider this man armed and married.
Man whose heart has already been removed awaits transplant, and waits, and waits.
Boy’s eating habits spark protests, accusations of racism.
“The sound of the tuba—I could relate to it. I remember one of my first solos: the Rocky theme. The secret lives of the National Symphony Orchestra.
Last American Titanic survivor, Lillian Gertrud Asplund, dies at 99.
Video: Tom Cruise tries to dance, cannot move feet.
Headlines for Friday, May 5, 2006
New York’s currently: cinco de everything
Senate passes $109 billion emergency spending bill for wars, hurricanes, and Rhode Island.
Building costs for WTC memorial steaming toward $1 billion—will planning begin anew?
Cheney sends “heavily vetted” barbs toward Russia; please note: All of these men are smiling.
1) Zarqawi releases videos to mock U.S.; 2) U.S. finds video outtakes, releases them to mock Zarqawi.
Newly discovered memo may prove Zarqawi is exploiting sectarian violence in Iraq.
The minimum number of players is clearly four: three men on and one batting. That’s how we played: four people on a side. We tried baseball and it didn’t work.
Study says full-time, stay-at-home mothers could command a salary of $134,121; scientists say hot dads don’t always equal hot sons.
New Penguin editions with cool covers are so good you’ll want to eat them.
Why we answer our cellphones when no one is calling.
The corruption surrounding Boston’s Big Dig.
John Cage said to play his organ piece as slow as possible; note four starts today.
The only thing worse than Godsmack is being the lead singer of Godsmack during this interview.
In short, did sampling jump the shark, or was it pushed?
Are you a Dylanist or an Enoid?
“Tropical diseases are here to stay in Canada.” Global warming has unexpected, deadly effects.
Welcoming new advertisers to the Deck this week: 5inch and scanR.
New Yorkers pick up their dogs’ poo—Texans do not.
Audio: 42 hours with Buckminster Fuller.
If you wanted, you could watch a lot of TV right now.
Headlines for Thursday, May 4, 2006
New York’s currently: brewing coffee with coffee, metaphorically
Jury doesn’t reach consensus and Moussaoui gets life sentence.
Op: Witness a noble jury refusing a terrorist his martyrdom and a state its scapegoat.
House narrowly passes Abramoff-inspired lobbying legislation that’s a far cry from promised bill.
Picasso portrait, “Dora Maar With Cat,” sells for $95.2 million.
Enormous belly button gives away fake Van Dyck.
Royal member discovered loose in the sand surrounding King Tut.
The magic roundabout of Swindon, absolutely terrifying to American eyes.
Thieves use laptops to crack keyless-entry cars, e.g., David Beckham’s.
There is no need for an auxiliary power supply. Proposal for an Arizona SWAT unit to begin employing monkeys.
“Gun-shaped teddy bear crackers ready to liven up wedding receptions.”
If you can walk a quarter-mile, you’ll probably last six more years.
U.S. bird flu plan missing a key element: how to pay for it.
Thighspace.com? Couchsurfers employ web to skip hotels while traveling, preferring your spare loveseat.
KGB Bar launches KGBBarLit magazine.
Times blogs written by U.S. soldiers becoming excellent narratives.
Comic-book Superrman impervious to copyediting.
Examples of Disney’s self-plagiarization. (Very Mehta of them, if you ask us.)
You’re a fool if you don’t take my advice. Mr. T’s advice show to debut in October.
Wired’s appreciation of Alinea’s nouveau food, better seen here.
George “Hamburger America” Motz’s 15 favorite burgers in the U.S.
Eighty best places to eat out in Paris.
Wine lovers who can’t recognize complexity in fine beers need to hurdle their hang-ups.
Core classical recordings of the 20th century.
Los Angeles as experienced in 1907.
How David Blaine may manage to hold his breath for nine minutes.
Postal Service proposes a “forever stamp” to suffice forever for first-class mail.
Headlines for Wednesday, May 3, 2006
New York’s currently: finding Greenpoint ashes in Fort Greene and thinking, seems familiar
Mexico’s Fox to legalize nearly all popular drugs and narcotics for personal use.
The scale of this year’s spring Taliban attacks alarms officials, though the Taliban doesn’t make the U.S.’s list of terrorists.
State Department offers four Spanish versions of the “Star-Spangled Banner.”
Republicans’ $100 gas rebate is dead, and S.U.V. sales are sharply down, except for GM’s new trucks.
NASA announces plan to launch $700 million into space.
Three convicted in 2004 Munch thefts; $121 million repayment to be dropped if paintings are found.
Research money may be cut for Bush’s laser weapon.
All the signs point to blogspot—Bin Laden is a left-wing blogger.
Two-thirds of college-age Americans can’t find Iraq on a map; half can’t find New York.
Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby companies accused of false advertising.
Want to lose weight? Drink delicious unroasted coffee.
ABC fluff piece on Google promotes gagging by second paragraph.
Real-world ATM card offered for virtual online game.
His nipples are autographed. Really, I could just stop there. Hot chicks with douchebags.
The Great Gatsby by John Kenny, author also of White Noise.
The new right: whole-grain, crunchy aesthetic-minded conservatives.
Democrats use midterm ballot initiatives to split and stymie Republicans.
Tommy Frank says fire-breathing anarchy may be just what Dems need to embrace.
Videos: TV in Japan.
Headlines for Tuesday, May 2, 2006
New York’s currently: developing an allergy for every situation
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants skip work, school in peaceful protests across the U.S.
Yesterday’s demonstrations employed multiple tactics—though some proved more successful than others.
David Blaine begins goldfish act in Lincoln Center.
Passages from a third novel, Sophie Kinsella’s Can You Keep a Secret?, show up in Kaavya Viswanathan’s book; we think you can do better.
Qatar announces $60 million in grants for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Puerto Rico’s schools and federal offices shut down until government finds some more money.
Egypt’s “important civilizing step” is a single Cairo-wide call to prayer.
Inflation soars out of control in Zimbabwe; price of toilet paper hits $417 a sheet.
Anna Nicole Smith wins her Supreme Court case.
The court rules unanimously that Anna Nicole looks better than she has looked in years. What if the Court ruled for cable?
“The thing that always gets me is watching people send emails.” Twenty years of sloppy Hollywood versions of the internet.
No intersection: the 10 sexiest cars for 2006, the 10 most fuel-efficient cars for 2006.
The Vatican rethinks its position on condoms.
Archbishop of York gets in touch with the younger generation by wearing a hoodie.
“I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.” The Photography of Lewis Carroll.
The top 10 creepiest Depeche Mode songs.
Looking for a Starbucks? You won’t find one here: The Starbucks delocator.
Are we worthy of our kitchens?
Headlines for Monday, May 1, 2006
New York’s currently: grape crazy!
Deadline for Darfur peace agreement passes with no accord.
Kadima signs up Shas for coalition government in Israel (by leaving evacuating settlements off the table).
White House plan to lower gas prices won’t do much, says White House.
Even Limbaugh feels whored by Republican $100 coupon plan.
Candid camera catches Dennis Hastert ditching hydrogen-fueled car for his SUV.
Pissed off about gas prices? Blame your rich trader buddies.
Who decides when the flag should go half-mast? You do.
Due to bugle player shortage, Pentagon purchased hundreds of “Taps” emulators.
Bush reserves the right to be above 750 laws.
Video: Black person visits Aspen. See also, Colbert visits the Correspondents’ Dinner.
Whether choking on chicken or saving lives, celebrities have an alarming amount of Heimlich moments.
Rocks in Your Head record store no longer able to afford Soho rent, moving to Williamsburg.
The history of the proverbial “little guy.”
Free Berkeley classes on iTunes; MoMA podcasts to guide your art walks.
Robots as included in fine art.
So the joke goes: Eighty people in royal blue polos walk into a Manhattan Best Buy.
Details behind the brother-on-brother civil war to succeed in Hasidic Williamsburg.
Texas Ranch House hits the airwaves tonight.
The truth behind Opus Dei’s Manhattan headquarters: it’s a non-campy frat house, they swear.
Sedaris: Being dead for 300 years, there’s a lot a skeleton doesn’t understand.
In the ’80s, this sport had a very serious cocaine problem—and that was a pretty consistent pattern. The incredible, terrible chronology of Steve Howe’s life.
Video: Top 10 ping pong shots.
TODAY’S FEATURE
Iggy Pop Lusts for Life
More than four decades into his career as a rock mentor, Iggy Pop chats with PATRICK AMBROSE about getting back with the Stooges and finding a daily rhythm that suits him.DIGEST
Feeling for Iceland
Iceland is having a tough time at the moment. With a little experimental music—though nothing post rock—the bubbling pop and folk sounds of Sin Fang Bous remind us of Iceland’s ability to charm, hypnotize.My Incredulous Face
Holiday Travel Hell
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