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Times goes on eating tour with Calvin Trillin, as part of New Yorker Festival. "Do you have a trick for getting everything in your mouth?" someone asked. "Mouth twisting," said Mr. Trillin. (0) 10/6/08

Good AP piece on congressional grilling of Lehman Brothers CEO, Richard Fuld. Asked about the $480 million he's made since 2000, "Fuld took off his glasses, held them, and looked uncomfortable. He said his compensation was not quite that much." (0) 10/6/08

Portuguese bank is letting depositors bet on the US election outcome to determine their interest rate. Companies should just start selling lottery tickets instead of stock. (0) 10/6/08

Gigantic Weird Al Yankovic profile on Wired. Includes interviews with fans Andy Samberg and Seth Green. Did you know Weird Al was his high school's valedictorian? (0) 10/6/08

NY's dominitrixes want to form a union and a lobbying PAC to fight recent police raids of their dungeons. Post's article is titled "Binding Arbitration". Ha! (0) 10/6/08

Silver lining of bank failures and takeovers--some of the billions of branches in NYC might close. Which will free up plenty of space for more Duane Reades. (0) 10/3/08

Malaysian couple beaten to death with broomsticks by family members as part of an effort to help them quit smoking. I guess this strategy did technically get them to stop smoking. Their children were beaten too. [map] (0) 10/3/08

Daily News gets debate reactions from a Hockey Mom and a Joe 6-Pack. Average Joe is funny. Says he mutes TV and looks at who has the bigger flag pin to decide who's more patriotic, and that Palin is "a little bitchy." (0) 10/3/08

Jet Blue attendant fired for coming onto female passenger and offering "chocolate love" and "special coffee". Special coffee? (0) 10/3/08

Unintended consequence of rickrolling: Rick Astley is a contender for Best Act Ever award on MTV Europe. He's up against U2, Green Day, Britney Spears. (0) 10/2/08

How have I not known about Shift-Tab backwards navigation all these years? Good list of basic computer shortcuts and tips from David Pogue that some people still don't know about. (0) 10/2/08

Reuters interviews Mike Leigh. New movie "Happy-Go-Lucky" opens next week. Some great insights into his movies' themes. Says he's going to keep working until he drops. (0) 10/2/08

Slate diagrams Sarah Palin's sentences (0) 10/2/08

NYPD lieutenant who ordered suicidal man on a ledge to be tasered has killed himself. Turns out you're not supposed to taser people on ledges. (0) 10/2/08

Appearing in Darren Aronofsky's new movie The Wrestler: Marisa Tomei's nipples. With fake rings. (0) 10/2/08

Britney Spears breaks into a Bronx middle school, closed for Rosh Hashanah. Publicists eventually found a few kids to show up and act excited. Promotion of new single maybe not off to the best start. (0) 10/1/08

Bronx residents interviewed by the Times totally unsurprised by financial meltdown. "It's corporate America doing what corporate America does." "Organized crime." "Ain't nothing new about it." (0) 10/1/08

North Korean arcades are a wonderland of retro video games. Sort of the same way that NH's Funspot is a global destination for vintage games. Not on purpose. (1) 10/1/08

Obama boosts his white nerd cred by flashing the Vulcan hand sign to Leonard Nimoy at a rally. (0) 10/1/08

Philip Glass is writing an opera about Walt Disney. (0) 9/30/08

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