links for 2007-01-03

Two masked gunmen kicked open the side and back doors of a South Side home known as the “Gay House” and started shooting up a party there early Sunday morning.

The most amazing—and disappointing—cultural events of 2006.

Find out about the pollution problems in your community and learn who is responsible. Search on you zipcode to see your health risks.

A poll for the Military Times newspapers, released Friday, shows that more troops disapprove of the president’s handling of the war than approve of it.

Lawmakers in Massachusetts, the only state where gay marriage is legal, on Tuesday voted to advance a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, a critical step toward putting the measure the 2008 ballot.

Four or five years from now, there will be a big box in your den, study, or living room connected to the Internet. It will collect music and TV shows and also movies, both new and old. You will be able to burn these movies onto DVDs on the box and play th