links for 2008-07-03

Among recent buyers: “four guys from Finland” who wound up buying a one-bedroom apartment for roughly 360,000 euros ($560,000) while on vacation. “They saw the sign,” he says, “and two days later they’d talked themselves into buying a condo.

This is a wonderful little piece about how the authors' two sons obsessed with the subway: "the other passengers . . . gave me warm smiles. I guess they hadn’t seen that many 3-year-olds sobbing, “Local…I want the local." The pictures are cute overl

Sometimes judges do really stupid things.