var oldpostnumber = 174 ; var randomnumber = Math.random() ; var rand1 = Math.round( (oldpostnumber-1) * randomnumber) + 1 ; oldposts = new Array oldposts[1] = "The Zebra Storyteller" oldposts[2] = "Bad Screenplays" oldposts[3] = "Propaganda for Kids!" oldposts[4] = "Strangest Things We've Bought on Ebay" oldposts[5] = "Planet of the Artifically Intelligent Apes" oldposts[6] = "9/11: "I feel like I have to justify Islam not only to others, but to myself"" oldposts[7] = "9/11: "When it rains, what will happen to the posters of the missing?"" oldposts[8] = "9/11: "Enough glass has been broken for years of weddings"" oldposts[9] = "9/11: "Truth becomes a tragedy, limping from the light"" oldposts[10] = "9/11: "We were a whole hospital with nothing to do"" oldposts[11] = "9/11: "My cocoon of shock"" oldposts[12] = "9/11: "My back porch coated in ash"" oldposts[13] = "WTC: A Memorial Vision" oldposts[14] = "A Visit to Ground Zero" oldposts[15] = "9/11: Lessons from the War on Drugs" oldposts[16] = "9/11: Normal Service Delays, Not So Normal Anymore" oldposts[17] = "9/11: Dispatch from Istanbul" oldposts[18] = "9/11: The War at Home" oldposts[19] = "9/11: Letter from Iowa City" oldposts[20] = "Bloomberg: Our New Boyfriend" oldposts[21] = "9/11: Letter from Minneapolis" oldposts[22] = "9/11: "The Things I Could Have Told Him"" oldposts[23] = "George Harrison: Rest In Peace" oldposts[24] = "Harry Potter: Passion Play" oldposts[25] = "Pick an Amendment, Any Amendment" oldposts[26] = "Civil Rights Watch" oldposts[27] = "Taliban Timewarp: The 16th Century? Or the 1960s?" oldposts[28] = "Things that make me happy: Random curiosities" oldposts[29] = "For consultants (and those who love them)" oldposts[30] = "Mrs. Lila Mae Boone of Laticuff, TX on the 2nd Amendment and 9/11" oldposts[31] = "On Jewish Terrorism" oldposts[32] = "Best and Worst Movies We Watched in 2001" oldposts[33] = "Two-Minute Oscars" oldposts[34] = "The Great Boston Molasses Disaster" oldposts[35] = "Cheerleader Catfight!" oldposts[36] = "World Music and the World Economic Forum" oldposts[37] = "Where's the Money, George?" oldposts[38] = "Superbowl Half-Time Tribute: All-Bad" oldposts[39] = "The Meaning of the Flag" oldposts[40] = "9/11 Marketing Tie-Ins Go to the Dogs" oldposts[41] = "Overheard: Sandra Bernhard" oldposts[42] = "An Interview with Gerald Casale of DEVO" oldposts[43] = "Kitsch and feeling and 9/11 (a summary)" oldposts[44] = "From the PDA ridiculed to the PDA sublime..." oldposts[45] = "Winner of the Good Grammar in Signage Award" oldposts[46] = "Dents: A New York Story" oldposts[47] = "Oscar Trivia" oldposts[48] = "News Flash: Rock Crits Still Love Bob Dylan" oldposts[49] = "Follow the Money" oldposts[50] = "Is This Your CD Collection?" oldposts[51] = "A Rant Concerning the War on Terror" oldposts[52] = "My Mideast Peace Plan" oldposts[53] = "How to Stick Out in Coney Island's Best Pizza Joint" oldposts[54] = "Whither the Weblog Phenomenon?" oldposts[55] = "Ted Rall hits his low point" oldposts[56] = "Sikhs and the NYPD (read comments!)" oldposts[57] = "File under heteronormativity (cf. snack cakes)" oldposts[58] = "U.S. Forces Invade Hyboria" oldposts[59] = "Atheists Need Not Apply" oldposts[60] = "Palms and Cigarettes" oldposts[61] = "Is Buffy Real?" oldposts[62] = "Another Blog Manifesto" oldposts[63] = "Jesse Jackson Has Blood On His Hands" oldposts[64] = "Monkey Business, or Why I Love New York" oldposts[65] = "Jesus Saves AND GRETZKY SCORES ON THE REBOUND!" oldposts[66] = "War on Terror Action Figures!" oldposts[67] = "Bringing Computing to the Third World" oldposts[68] = ""Are You Jewish By Any Chance?" Why I've Changed My Answer." oldposts[69] = "LISTen Up! Music for After the Breakup" oldposts[70] = "A Debate on Affirmative Action (see comments)" oldposts[71] = ""So Mel Brooks, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jerry Springer walk into a bar..." See comments for punchline." oldposts[72] = "NYCBloggers Launch!" oldposts[73] = "Hey Mr. DJ..." oldposts[74] = "Typography at the Movies" oldposts[75] = "The Mechanics of Gun Tragedy" oldposts[76] = "Two Brooklyn Thugs" oldposts[77] = "Attack of the Jews Clones" oldposts[78] = "What does a fellow have to do to get a drink around here?" oldposts[79] = "What if Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, H. Rider Haggard, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, and Alan Moore wrote a screenplay together?" oldposts[80] = "Surprise! The SBC Says Something Outrageous" oldposts[81] = "Tell Me Why I Don't Like Mondays" oldposts[82] = "Overheard: Kosher Baby Shoes?" oldposts[83] = "Fear and Groceries" oldposts[84] = "Will Bloomberg Elminate Lingerie Recycling?" oldposts[85] = "How to Give Yourself Cultural Whiplash, Which Then Will Trigger Idle Musings on the Way the World Might Be if World War Two Had Turned Out Differently." oldposts[86] = "Let There Be Dark" oldposts[87] = "A Rather Unfortunate Ebay Auction" oldposts[88] = "Spider-Man and Anxiety Attacks" oldposts[89] = "Windows Media Player Spyware" oldposts[90] = "Filtering Porn: An Immodest Proposal" oldposts[91] = "Civility" oldposts[92] = "Has the Dog Buddha Nature or Not?" oldposts[93] = "Remember when they really were floppy?" oldposts[94] = "Racial profiling, redux" oldposts[95] = ""Dying to Live?"" oldposts[96] = "A defense of TIPS" oldposts[97] = "A cat, a mouse, and a brick." oldposts[98] = "Seeing Signs" oldposts[99] = "LISTen up! Music for Road Trips" oldposts[100] = "Hip Hop Hens" oldposts[101] = "Belief-O-Matic: Find Your Religion!" oldposts[102] = "How I Nearly Killed Steve Buscemi" oldposts[103] = "One Year Later: September's Here Again" oldposts[104] = "Flying While Brown" oldposts[105] = "9/11/02: A Letter to My Son" oldposts[106] = "IMing in the Face of Terror" oldposts[107] = "The Great Kelly Clarkson Debate" oldposts[108] = "Iraq: is Invasion Our Only Option?" oldposts[109] = "Blogs: A Guide for the Perplexed" oldposts[110] = "When Did I Stop Believing In Democracy?" oldposts[111] = "How to Get a Refund on the Verrazzano Bridge Toll: Get Eaten by Cannibals" oldposts[112] = "Fixing Democracy" oldposts[113] = "Mach 5-7-5: Speed Racer Haiku" oldposts[114] = "In Search of the Oreo Cow" oldposts[115] = "Spirited Away: An Extraordinary Fairy Tale" oldposts[116] = "Scary Music" oldposts[117] = "The Scariest Movies Ever" oldposts[118] = "Morning (Hangover) in America" oldposts[119] = "Strange Books" oldposts[120] = "What We Mean When We Talk About Third Parties" oldposts[121] = "Disney Would Like You to Forget You Saw This" oldposts[122] = "Segway, Way Uncool" oldposts[123] = "Barbie: Blogger" oldposts[124] = "Buffy and The Necronomicon" oldposts[125] = "Valley of the Doll Heads" oldposts[126] = "Where do you stand? A political quiz." oldposts[127] = "Bloggers topple Lott" oldposts[128] = "LISTen up! Songs that grab my heart and won't let go" oldposts[129] = "SUV: Satan's car?" oldposts[130] = "Bad Ideas" oldposts[131] = "Yet Another List of the Best (and Worst) Movies of 2002" oldposts[132] = "War Opponents, Rise & Shine" oldposts[133] = "Adaptation vs. The New Yorker" oldposts[134] = "Iraq, Redux" oldposts[135] = "The Rachel Corrie Debate" oldposts[136] = "Good Ole' Boy or Terrorist?" oldposts[137] = "Voting Fraud with Touch-Screen Interface!" oldposts[138] = "The Absolute Last Word on Protests" oldposts[139] = "GOP Congressman claims all blacks are drug addicts" oldposts[140] = "Truth in Signage Awards" oldposts[141] = "Feminism and The Little Engine that Could" oldposts[142] = "Senator Santorum on Man-On-Dog Action" oldposts[143] = "Emergence" oldposts[144] = "The Ishbadiddle / IMDB Author Relevance Index" oldposts[145] = "Look at the Poster, Guys" oldposts[146] = "Tufte Alert!" oldposts[147] = "My winning M. Night Shyamalan haiku" oldposts[148] = "But was it profiling? (The famous 75-comment thread!)" oldposts[149] = "Video Game Writing 101" oldposts[150] = "Science Proves that Politicians Lie" oldposts[151] = "Music Memes: Melismata, Musical Torture, Mohawked Snobs" oldposts[152] = "Discomblogulated. Adj: Being too busy with stuff to be able to blog about the stuff you're busy with." oldposts[153] = "Brother, can you spare a Chai?" oldposts[154] = "Gender Confusion!" oldposts[155] = "Trashy Novels" oldposts[156] = "Soccer Film Recap: Bend it Like Beckham vs. Victory" oldposts[157] = "Tax Credit Quiz!" oldposts[158] = "Everett-Lanes to the Rescue!" oldposts[159] = "Am I Cheap or Something?" oldposts[160] = "Clothes Make the Man" oldposts[161] = "Mike meets The Simpsons' Comic Book Guy" oldposts[162] = "Wherein Chris and Emily Announce Their Engagement" oldposts[163] = "Wherein Andrea and Jay Announce Their Engagement" oldposts[164] = "5 Pointless Questions" oldposts[165] = "Flash Mobs and Blackouts" oldposts[166] = "Some Important Public Service Announcements" oldposts[167] = "Hanging Out With Robert Plant" oldposts[168] = "Callous New Yorkers?" oldposts[169] = "Liz Phair to be Sued by Fox News Over Trademark Infringement" oldposts[170] = "5 Useless Questions (Part 2)" oldposts[171] = "The Psychology of Taxes" oldposts[172] = "Would You Rent an Apartment to Ol' Dirty Bastard?" oldposts[173] = "9/11: It's Two Years Later" oldposts[174] = "Appeals Court Rules that California Recall Must Last Until the End of Time" var featuredpost = oldposts[rand1] document.write(featuredpost)