Take a global gastronomic tour without leaving Manhattan. Take a stroll down Bedford Street.

Are the "influential" bloggers out there getting too self-congratulatory with each other? (see also: the blogosphere's most popular list)

Four ex-heads of Israel's Shin Bet security agency bitch-slap Sharon's anti-terror policy. These guys know what they're talking about.

The World Trade Center was so expansive that it had its own ZIP code. What to do with 10048?

Whodathunkit? Afghanistan is the locus of the new tech boom thanks to the UNDP. Um... Silicon Kush?

Henry Higgins asked "why can't the English learn to speak?" Ophelia Benson asks "why can't the Americans learn to write?"

Iraq's Ministry of Information isn't dead after all, it's just now run by the Americans.

Call Molly Ivins a Bush-hater. No really, go ahead.

Jimmy Carter (and friends) have come up with the Atlanta Declaration, a new blueprint on reconciling human rights with anti-terror efforts.