Extra, Extra

- Tonight gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson gets his final wish: his ashes will be shot exactly six months from his death out of a cannon over his Colorado compound.
- The Times has an interesting story on a cryptosporidiosis outbreak(sounds like a Neal Stephenson disease to us) based around Geneva, N.Y.. The parasitic disease, which spreads through water and dirty hands, was somehow camping out in water tanks feeding into the Sprayground water park. The point of origin for the disease wasn't caught for over two months and more than 1,700 people are suspected of having been infected. So, uh, wash your hands.
- DC Comics is in a huff over some pictures at the Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts gallery and online at Artnet.com that show Batman and Robin in homoerotic positions. If your curious can see the pictures in question here (for now).
- The years-long real estate fight between the National Council of Young Israel and the Young Israel of Fifth Avenue congregation is over. The congregation gets to stay where it is (on Union Square, not Fifth Ave.), but it has to lose the "Young Israel" part of its name.
- While renovating a lecture hall in Brooklyn College scientists found a rock with tracks marks dating back 100 million years. The rock had been excavated in Texas before World War II, packed up and brought to the College where it was promptly forgotten. Until now.
- The Fringe Festival continues. Go!