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I'd say somewhere between Delhi and Montreal

GOOD has this infographic of the cities with the most frustrating traffic problems. Manila was not included in the study, but I'm guessing that on the pain index we're somewhere between New Delhi and Montreal. Though our drivers would probably claim Beijing-level aggravation, just to top the survey. The 2010 IBM Global Commuter Pain Study

Pelicula

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LitWit Challenge 3.8: Sounds like this

Every week in the LitWit Challenge we give you an assignment. We've asked you to reveal some deep dark secret (Some secrets were so dark you asked that they be deleted). We've had a competition for the worst ex (Yours are horrendous. We're impressed). We've asked you to remake classic literature in Carlo J. Caparas [...]

Wall Street 2: Ham and cheese

This is the perfect time for a sequel to Wall Street. Surely the people who made "Greed is good" the catchphrase for an era would have a lot to say about the global financial meltdown of 2008. You know Oliver Stone likes nothing better than "explaining" (critics always use a harsher verb) history to the [...]

Best-Dressed Despot

No contest: Colonel Muammar Qaddafi of Libya. (We didn't say "Best-Dressed Despot's Wife" so sit down.) He was already a colonel when we were kids, you'd think he'd have promoted himself by now. On the other hand, he has resisted naming himself general of generals, that's something. Foreign Policy has a photo essay on the [...]

Territorial dispute

- Good night! - Good night! - Excuse me, that's my pillow. - So it was. It's mine now. - Where am I going to sleep? - Do not disturb me, I am sleepy.

Toledo-ing the classics, the sequel

I liked the Ruben Toledo covers for the Penguin Classics Deluxe editions of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and The Scarlet Letter. In fact I ran out and bought the Wuthering Heights (and read it again. Repeat readings do not diminish the Bronte's wonderful strangeness. Everyone in it seems bonkers but they make their own [...:]

The winner of LitWit Challenge 3.7: After the after-party is…

dibee, for the one about the inception. Congratulations, dibee, you've won the Bret Easton Ellis set: Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms. Please post your full name in Comments (It won't be published) and we'll alert you when your prize is ready. Thank you to everyone who joined LitWit Challenge 3.7. These contests are meant [...:]

Read this. Just read this.

Borghese Gardens, Rome. To an Aesthete Dying Young by Andrew Solomon in the Yale Alumni Magazine.

Pictures of things that never happened

Tilda Swinton says she would love to play Conan O'Brien. I think it's perfect casting. Also, if Cate Blanchett can play Bob Dylan I think Angelina Jolie should be Mick Jagger. You went to your high school prom with the mohawk guy from Glee. Lady Gaga comes to you for fashion advice. (You said, "Meat [...:]