November 1, 2005

By Sheila Lennon / The Providence (R.I.) Journal

I've been very busy in the other part of my job, but here are some quick things worth noting:

The Washington gadfly: The Toronto Globe and Mail interviews investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.

Jim Romenesko has lots of inside-media reaction today to Patrick Fitzgerald, Judith Miller and more.

Jim Kunstler: They lied to us. Not what you probably think is coming:

You want truth, Progressive America? Here's the truth: the War to Save Suburbia entailed an unavoidable strategic military enterprise. Saving Suburbia required that the Middle East be pacified or at least stabilized, because two-thirds of the world's remaining oil is there (and in case you haven't figured this out by now, Suburbia runs on oil, and the oil has to be cheap or we couldn't afford to run it).

Van Gogh: Glass Of Absinthe And A Carafe

The Mystery of the Green Menace: "It's been celebrated as a muse and banned as a poison. Now an obsessed microbiologist has cracked the code for absinthe - and distilled his own." At Wired.

Character Disorder: This is a game. Unexplainable and hard, for a game that involves Tetris with letters and colored tiles.

Yahoo UK & Ireland has put together links lists of the Top 100 sites for women and for men. They both lead with the same T-shirt shop.