Sisters. Excerpts from Lynne Cheney's tale of women in the Wild West. more inside

Firecrackers. A collection of over 400 firecracker labels, from old classics through to the present.

Security checkpoints to begin in Boston subways. And no more pictures in the New York subways. Slowly, the US transmogrifies into another Tel Aviv.

Exiles: Uncertain times for Iraqi Canadians. Flash presentation from CBC's Radio 3, profiling three Iraqi Canadians as they talk about their lives, Iraq and the war. [via airgid.com, the designer's website.] more inside

"Gukanjima - View of an Abandoned Island" Poignantly creepy.

Bush takes a Fall Michael Moore, on accepting the Palme d'Or from Cannes for his film "Fahrenheit 9/11", said of Dubya that he hoped "nobody tells him that I have won this award while he is eating a pretzel." No worries, Michael: he was riding his bike.

"Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal. My aim has always been to defend the secular foundation of our nation and the poor of our country." So said Sonia Gandhi as she declined the position of Prime Minister of India. more inside

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be a joke. This, however, does.