links for 2006-09-13

All the time, I knew that the very air I breathed contained the remains of thousands of people, including four of my friends, two in the planes and — as I discovered from those “missing posters” seared still into my soul — two more in the Towers.

Yeah, a real photo of him stepping on the flag. Um, who made an american flag into a doormat in the first place? Not cool.

American journalist is charged after taking video of a Katrina encampment for “evacuees” to show the squalid and dangerous conditions they’re living in.

American objects to the inaccurate portray of their airline in the movie. “This misrepresentation of facts dishonors the memory of innocent American Airlines employees and all those who lost their lives as a result of the tragic events of 9/11.”

An anti-semetic children’s book from WWII era Germany, designed to teach children to hate the Jews.

Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking … a sleeping pill.

From Bibles designed to look like glossy fashion magazines to mega-churches with ATMs, rock climbing walls, and in one case, a drive-thru McDonalds, the nuances of conservative evangelical culture are no mystery to Robert Lanham, who has his roots in the

map symbols from the national parks service – free downloads. Cool

Police are unamused by Gordon MacKillop’s glowing garden gnome. Apparently it is offensive to his neighbours. ” I’m not having the police telling me what type of garden gnome I can have in my garden” says owner

A guide to when condiments go bad and should be thrown out, styled like a periodic table. I should print this out for our refrigerator.

Another real “in the city” experience.

Another New York perspective from one of my favorite designers.

An animated cartoon of Bush as a kid, which bears an awfully strange resemblance to Ironic San’s “Adventures of Li’l Bill and Hill.”