Gulfstream: 2000

"wanker" on the op-ed page of the WSJ

"410 Jewish orphan studying aeronautical engineering"

intriguing historical what-ifs

challenging the legitimacy of fingerprint tests (not very plausible...)

why we're smarter than ever

BUSH DEFEATS GORE headlines, etc.

popular vote, by county

Sylvia Plath's diary

"To Nader, it is liberal meliorists, not right-wing conservatives, who are the true enemies of his effort to build a "genuine" progressive movement."

(via actual New Yorker rja)

"How to save Al Gore's bacon by swapping votes on the Internet."

will east coast exit polls be leaked to west coast voters?

huh?

Andrew Sullivan lauds Matt Drudge

Amory Levins's "natural capitalism"

how English lit. is practised at Yale

"what are Hamas and Hezbollah?"

Dalrymple: "... in attending football matches, even when he sits in the best seats, the middle-class fan becomes an honorary proletarian, in more or less the same way that Marie Antoinette once became an honorary shepherdess."

counterfeiting $100 bills in Colombia

Mr. Gaia: happy to bury nuclear waste in his garden--"They would be welcome to take pictures of my grandchildren sitting on top of it."

review of Nigel Molesworth compilation

(for reference: Gore's embellishments)

glowing Radiohead profile

defense of Wen Ho Lee coverage, good writing (from blorg)

smug, whiny, annoying comparison of modern and ancient olympic games

the offensively-named "Dick" Cheney

teenager builds toy nuclear reactor to earn boy scout merit badge

long Harper's story about junior-league hockey in a small Canadian town

on the invention of mauve

John Waters on management

Theodore Dalrymple inhales a lime and rails against Walsall's new art gallery, the popularisation of art, the education system ...

what different religions let you do

photo; has odd Escher-like perspectives happening

promote peace via conceptual art

the sounds animals make, in different languages [I was planning to do this...]

wrong birds heard during golf telecasts

why is the existence of cannibalism continually denied?

Leonard Cohen news

"The obscene hyperventilation that followed Diana's death ..."

"What common household items are best smoked?"

Robert Hughes interview

Swedish sneaker freak: "That night I had terrible nightmares! I could see those trendy Tokoites walking out of Ismael's store, congratulating themselves on getting blue 95's for a few measly yens."

vote selling on ebay

use Superbowl scores to predict the next president

"If you take all his God talk seriously, it's insulting. Also wrong and a bit un-American."

Lieberman and the separation of church and state

on smoking: the right to commit suicide by degrees should be a basic human right

Concorde flight-recorder transcript

"for entertainment purposes only"

another review of Bloom's *How to Read and Why*

(I cannot explain it, but I am yet to tire of Eggers's shtick)

I have to get some of these

does belief in cold fusion amount to a religious belief? [I want to know more about this case, mail me if you have urls.]

"Turns out that last September this guy was hired, and in his contract of employment it stipulated that he wanted a desk made out of LEGO."

reflections on Oxford

guide to interviewing

Eggers works to preëmpt critics *again*! ("A lot of it had to do with looks. Neal is, frankly, the best-looking writer I know, and he basically had me in his thrall.")

the economics of negative marginal costs--I wish I had the wit to understand this completely

phone psychic's diary: "M names?" she says, annoyed. "The other psychic told me 'S' names, Steve, Scott."

Michael Moore says George W. wouldn't make abortion illegal

good despite association with Diarist Awards

this is very good

on reading

people aren't rational, economists discover

THIS IS WRONG

William Saletan skewers George W.

Alistair Cooke on the Vice-Presidency

left "half-finished B.Litt. thesis in a cafe"

(previous 3 paragraphs interesting too)

odd review of A.H.W.O.S.G.

"before", "thinking of you", "during--oh", "finished"

Timecode: "Amazingly, there is no editing. The four narratives were shot simultaneously on digital video in real time ..."

Harry Potter #4

"the Republican Party was founded mainly to end slavery ..."

the Earth at night

Lieberman--not just an orthodox Jew

just throw your shit out

what the Dave Eggers thing below is referring to

on the difficulties an orthodox Jew might face as VP

sister Beth sticks it to Dave Eggers

(for prospective writers)

"renounced Christianity due to homophobic church and keenness to become a juvenile drinker"

on the OED

#2, #6, especially

powerpoint Gettysburg address

what Sylvia Plath sounds like

The Elements of Style, 4th ed. (review)

Edward de Bono goes off

"breakthrough" books in diff. fields

underground coal fire in China burns 200m tons of coal each year

Scandinavian political philosophy, or something