Newley Purnell

My brother’s friend Hayes has put some great photos up on his site–including some entertaining pics of his trip to see my brother in Thailand a few months ago.

“Oh Blue-Eyed Thais, Flaunt Your Western Genes!” (New York Times; free registration required.)

There’s some great stuff in this week’s New Yorker: Rebecca Mead’s short, wonderfully-written piece about the evolution of the New York Times’s Sunday Weddings pages; Jane Mayer’s description of how the “Car Talk” guys’ anti-S.U.V. campaign went awry; and an interesting argument, from James Surowiecki, that the Bush Administration’s economic policies are pro-business, rather than pro-free market.

Voice of America has a really cool feature on their site: a country-by-country pronounciation guide for the names of world leaders.