Bush Picture Unveiled At White House

(NBC) - President Barack Obama is welcoming his favorite foil, former President George W. Bush, back to the White House on Thursday for the official unveiling of Bush's portrait. (story)
Bush is excited to see his portrait, or as he calls it, his one page picture book.

Signs Your Marriage Is Over

(Huffington Post) - Despite divorce being so common, many couples are caught off guard when it actually happens to them. They believe that if they just begin to love one another again, everything will turn out fine. This myth, however, lulls them into missing the warning signs that suggest that their marriage in trouble. 


Here are 10 ways to tell if your marriage is over: (story)
Number one, you just married Kim Kardashian.

Mermaid Show on Animal Planet

(NY Times) - As if we didn’t have enough probably fictitious but possibly real beings to worry about. All over basic cable, people are searching for Bigfoot, hunting down ghosts, looking for extraterrestrials. Now, it turns out, we need to add mermaids to the list.


At least we do if you take “Mermaids: The Body Found” seriously. Which you shouldn’t. The film, Sunday night on Animal Planet and part of its Monster Week, is a fictional account built on a few strands of fact and made to look like an actual documentary. (story)


The next mythical creature documentary from Animal Planet will be the search for Democrat with a fully formed backbone.

Trump Continues Birther Claims

(CBS) - Mitt Romney won the Texas primary Tuesday, picking up enough delegates to clinch the nomination.

He was raising big money with Donald Trump in Las Vegas. And so on Romney's day, there was the billionaire big-talker continuing to question, in a phone interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, whether Mr. Obama was born in the U.S.

"A lot of people do not think it was an authentic (birth) certificate (the president released)," Trump told Blitzer.

"How could you say that if the state..." Blitzer began to ask.

" ... A lot of people do not think it was authentic," Trump insisted. (story)

Trump then added evolution, sound economics, and basic scientific principles to the list of things his fans do not think are authentic.

SpaceX Dragon Capsule Delays Space Station Connection

(NBC) - SpaceX is holding back its Dragon cargo capsule from an unprecedented commercial hookup with the International Space Station, due to concerns about ranging data from the unmanned spacecraft. (story)
This is the biggest cancellation of a commercial hookup since the divorce of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries.

Investing Tips for Facebook Employees

(Forbes) - A small army of Facebook employees and early investors will wake up Friday morning with increased clarity about the magnitude of their substantially higher net worth.


Here are some bedrock principles to put all this good fortune on the right path: (story)


Step one, don't buy Facebook stock.

Race Horse Rescued At Sea

(CBS News) - A boat was used to rescue a white Arabian horse that got spooked during a photo shoot Wednesday, the Santa Barbara California Independent reports.

The paper reports the horse, named William, was spooked by the sound and sight of the breaking surf and broke free of his handler, racing up and down the beach before eventually diving into the chilly water.

The horse swam two miles into the Santa Barbara Channel. It's now recovering after nearly three hours in the cold water. (story)

Not to be outdone, Michael Phelps was found ten minutes later three miles into the channel.

Aaron Sorkin to Write Steve Jobs Movie

(The Guardian) - Now Apple founder Steve Jobs is to be immortalized on the big screen in not one but two competing Hollywood biopics, the latest of which yesterday confirmed The Social Network's Oscar-winning Aaron Sorkin as its screenwriter. (story)
Now Jobs' "one more thing" will be followed by a 20 minute monologue as he walks down the auditorium aisle.

Obama Offers Hope for Afghanistan

(NPR) - In a speech delivered from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, President Obama said that after more than 10 years of war in the country, the U.S. is on a path toward peace.

"My fellow Americans, we have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war. Yet here, in the pre-dawn darkness of Afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon," President Obama said. (story)

Unfortunately, what Obama thought was the light of a new day turned out to be the rocket burn of an incoming missile.

Facebook to Support Organ Donations

(Computer World) - Facebook launched a new tool today that co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes will help connect patients with needed organ donors.
Zuckerberg announced in an interview on Good Morning America that starting today, users in the U.S. and the U.K. will be able to note in their Timeline that they're organ donors. They also will be able to find links to organ donor registries and easily sign up. (story)
This sounds like a great idea, until people start uploading and tagging embarrassing pictures of their kidneys.

Google Cleared of Wiretapping

(Wired) - The Justice Department has cleared Google of wiretapping violations in connection to the company secretly intercepting Americans’ data on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers for two years ending in 2010, Google said. (story)
This marks the first time someone couldn't find anything on Google.

Titanic Replica Being Built

(CNN) - An Australian mining magnate has commissioned a Chinese shipyard to build a replica of the ill-fated Titanic, complete in every detail but equipped with modern technology to prevent a repeat of the original's fateful maiden voyage 100 years ago. (story)
To make sure the path is clear when the Titanic replica sails, the sea lane will be flown in advance by a replica of the Hindenburg and Amelia Earhart's plane.

Birds Respond to Earth's Magnetic Field

(BBC) - Researchers have spotted a group of 53 cells within pigeons' brains that respond to the direction and strength of the Earth's magnetic field. (story)
Apparently the pigeon's have brain cells that correlate navigation with magnetic fields, and their bowels with my car's windshield.

Supreme Court to Hear Arizona Immigration Case

(Fox News) - Over the last several years, states frustrated with America's porous borders, have rejected the long held notion that Washington is responsible for confronting illegal immigration and have passed a flurry of laws to let local police confront illegal immigration. The Supreme Court is poised in the coming months to let the states know whether they haven't crossed the line. (story)
Opponents say Arizona has gone to far, and hasn't just crossed the immigration line, but rather dug a three mile tunnel through the desert and under a fence to get over the line.

Space Delivery Ship Stalled

(ABC) - A private U.S. company has delayed launching a cargo ship to the International Space Station.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, was scheduled to launch the supply ship next Monday. But company officials said that the spaceship needs more testing. (story)

The company also needs to work out the kinks in their brown-shirt-and-shorts spacesuit.

Wal-Mart Covers Up Bribery Cases

(NY Times) - In September 2005, a senior Wal-Mart lawyer received an alarming e-mail from a former executive at the company’s largest foreign subsidiary, Wal-Mart de Mexico. In the e-mail and follow-up conversations, the former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance.

The lead investigator recommended that Wal-Mart expand the investigation.

Instead, an examination by The New York Times found, Wal-Mart’s leaders shut it down. (story)

The only thing Wal-Mart has shut down as fast as this bribery investigation are union attempts and local mom-and-pop shops.

Romney Jokes About 7-Eleven

 (CSP Net) - They're calling it "CookieGate." Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney put his foot in his mouth when he should have put in a cookie.


During a campaign stop in Bethel Park., Pa., on Tuesday, Romney joked about some cookies that a supporter offered to him, saying, "I'm not sure about these cookies. Did you make those cookies?" he asked the people around him. "You didn't, did you? No. No. They came from the local 7-Eleven bakery or wherever." (story)


To be fair, Romney put his foot in his mouth because it tasted better than food from 7-Eleven.