* Michael Brick on the sounds a train makes.
* Tom Lake on a gator.
* Gawker helps readers understand the NY Times' redesign.
* Jeb Phillips on a dead soldier. (The Army suited him, his friends said. He had a predisposition to neatness and order. He made people take off their shoes before getting in his Z28 Camaro so they wouldn't mess up the carpets, said Rob Wallace, his best friend since first grade. He scrubbed that car inside and out every weekend.)
* The Narrative Digest has been updated with 9/11 stuff, including this one by David Maraniss: A few minutes before 8, Tuesday morning. The day had broken clean and clear and sweet on the East Coast. Summer was over mentally, if not officially. It was time to get to work, and people were up and at it. The saddest and most relentlessly horrific day in modern American existence started in the most ordinary ways. (I have a working paper for this story that's pretty fantastic; I'll try to track it down.)
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