Chicago cops get Claus on 60 fugitives with bogus holiday survey

Seeded on Fri Dec 26, 2008 10:44 PM EST (NY Daily News)

odd-news, survey, fugitives, sting, scratchoff

How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic » Blog Archive » Manchester Rejects Congestion Charging

Seeded on Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:27 AM EST (howwedrive.com)

odd-news, traffic, manchester, public-transportation, traffic-engineering, tom-vanderbilt

Airline passenger restrained, arrested in NC - North Carolina | CharlotteObserver.com

Seeded on Wed Nov 5, 2008 11:12 AM EST (charlotteobserver.com)

travel

Annals of Culture: Late Bloomers: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Seeded on Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:14 AM EDT (New Yorker)

picasso, arts, cezanne, ben-fountain

Controversy Embroils Nobel Literature Prize : NPR

Seeded on Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:10 AM EDT (npr.org)

arts

Full Transcript: The Vice-Presidential Debate, Oct 2, 2008 - PART 1 OF 2 - International Business Times -

Seeded on Sat Oct 4, 2008 11:36 PM EDT (ibtimes.com)

us-news

Michigan Messenger » Lose your house, lose your vote

Seeded on Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:14 PM EDT (michiganmessenger.com)

BBC NEWS | UK | England | North Yorkshire | Outrage over pregnant shop dummy

Seeded on Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:05 PM EDT (BBC News)

offensive, lingerie, scandal, odd-news, pregnancy, outrage, mannequin

Museum Show Spotlights Artistry of Manga God Osamu Tezuka

Seeded on Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:04 AM EDT (Wired News)

The Asian Art Museum here isn't exactly what you'd call contemporary. Its last exhibit from Japan was of 18th-century screen paintings, and even that was considered pretty recent.

phoenix, arts, buddha, manga, comic-books, graphic-novels, astro-boy, a-tale-of-the-future

Hip-Hop Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain Merges Two Musical Genres With Nothing In Common

Seeded on Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:09 PM EDT (CBS News)

On Assignment America, CBS reporter Steve Hartman looks on perplexed as an elderly woman professes to own "some of [50 cent's]" albums. But beyond a bit of out-of-touch editorializing, an interesting spotlight on Del Sol.

arts, hip-hop, classical-music, violinist, del-sol, dj-scientific, daniel-bernard-roumain

Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Seeded on Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:47 PM EDT (Yahoo! Finance)

business

'Armageddon' Reveals Unpublished Vonnegut Work : NPR

Seeded on Tue Apr 1, 2008 6:09 PM EDT (NPR)

mark vonnegut's introduction to his father's previously unpublished essays can be read here. (along with rip torn reading "wailing shall be in all streets", FROM said essays.)

arts, kurt-vonnegut, npr, essays, talk-of-the-nation, armageddon-in-retrospect, mark-vonnegut

Students of Virginity

Seeded on Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:53 AM EDT (The New York Times)

i've said it once, and i'll say it again-- this is INFURIATING. so if i'm a woman nowadays, i'm limited to one of two camps, with no rational, non-mob-logic philosophy inbetween? oh NOOOOES!

health, club, chastity, new-york-times, fad, oxytocin, new-york-times-magazine, virginity, true-love, fredell

STAGE VIEW;For Sondheim, The New Has Always Been Old - New York Times

Seeded on Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:53 AM EDT (The New York Times)

neo-luddites attempting to reinvent the cave-wheel into a carriage-wheel-- students attempting to challenge their masters while retaining that kernel of jubilance, of soul...

entertainment, broadway, mentor, sondheim, musicals, homage, lyricist, rodgers-and-hammerstein