Category: Misc.

Welcome to Germany’s own indoor tropical island.

“WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?”

…of Things to Do Before I Die is go noodling. And now, thank the good Lord, I shall be able to do it legally in Missouri.

“There is a new post-feminist plague afflicting single women and his name is Whimpster…”

…Neal F., of my soccer team, who always whines about me never mentioning him here. So here you go, Neal, you Liverpudlian goon you.

(For the 99.998 per cent of Newley.com readers who don’t know Scouser Neal, you can find a photo of him–on the right, recently receiving the team’s dubious “Golden Leg” for the most effeminate performance in a game–here.)

…is Preshrunk, which chronicles its owner’s “fascination with t-shirts and hoodies.”

—“Wallet Essentials”

—“A Year of Getting Things Done”

—Ways to fix your life: Quit your job.

—Help these folks build their very own hobbit hole. Please. It’d be hilarious.

Oh, man. The death toll’s surpassed 55,000. Links for more info:

—TsunamiHelp.blogspot.com

—Command Post: How to Help

—All about the quake and resulting tsunami

—Photos from Phuket

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Jared “Guns, Germs, and Steel” Diamond’s new book, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.”

Danny Yee sends along his thoughts (scroll down to “my ‘best books’ read in 2004”).