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On measuring the inconsistency of McCain’s voting record.
On “rank-link imbalance”—people good with mentor and bosses, but bad with friends and lovers.
Print for the commute: The department of pre-crime.
How to turn a profit as the world gets warmer: by envisioning the carbon market.
Elizabeth McCracken decides between Laura Lippman and Junot DÍaz in today’s ToB.
What is the effect of all those prescription drugs ending up in the water supply?
Will Borders turning books cover-side-out sell more titles, or turn them into Froot Loops?
Happy birthday: Kottke.org turns 10 today.
Only 20 known veterans of World War I remain.
Touring the Lower East Side with Richard Price, discussing his latest novel.
How to map out the sentence, “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”
Rosecrans Baldwin on the viral videos circulating around his Paris office.
Video: An abridged history of American centric wafare.
Prepare for battle: PowerPoint karaoke.
E.P.A. reveals Bush intervened, weakened its new air pollution standards.
Thanks for the laughs guys. This was great. Obama campaign responds to Clinton email.
Clock preservationists are out to save the cuckoo population.
Mailbag: A reader in Russia responds to Elizabeth Kiem’s election piece.
Making art from books; also see: “Pulp Friction” by Thomas Allen.
The power of our internet children: Kids today—we’re telling you!—don’t read, don’t write, don’t care about anything farther in front of them than their iPods.
The 20 biggest record company blunders and their unintended consequences.
It is mostly legal to paint your car like a police cruiser.
» Mp3 Digest, May 14
» Book Digest, May 12
Suicide bomber kills himself and 25 others in Pakistani restaurant with anti-Taliban ties. (See the Washington Post’s slideshow.)
At least 13 killed by Hamas-Fatah fighting in Gaza.
Rev. Jerry Falwell dead at 73 from heart attack.
New York’s currently: enjoying a long spring
Announcement forecast: the U.K. is not ready for the Euro.
Manhattan judge rules transit fare hikes unfair.
A gallery of Saddam Hussein’s fantasy art collection.