Marc Dion: I Guess It Doesn't Matter Anymore (Creators Syndicate)
I'm a newspaper reporter. It isn't good for the stomach, but it can be good for reflection on those quiet, cool autumn night shifts in the middle of the week when nothing's on fire and the street crime is of the ignorable, drug-driven, non-fatal kind.
Paul Krugman: 140 Character Assassination (New York Times)
The question of the moment is whether the sane Republicans will, out of fear for their own political skins, defer to the insane Republicans and allow a government shutdown, or the much scarier possibility of debt default. Amid this drama, however, it's worth remembering that even the sane ones are pretty much off the deep end, all too willing to buy into crazy conspiracy theories.
Charlyn Fargo: Simply Apples (Creators Syndicate)
Sometimes we make nutrition so hard. Want a boost of something good for your body? Grab an apple. While you can't pick any single fruit as the healthiest, apples certainly belong to the list that you can benefit from by choosing more often.
John Cheese: 5 Changing Perspectives That Show You've Become an Adult (Cracked)
I tend to write about adulthood a lot because I never had anyone teach me how to become an adult. Or, more importantly, how to handle it when it blindsided me 15 years later than expected. And the thing is, I don't think that's unique to me by any means. The hit counters on those articles I linked combine for 3 million views, so people obviously have questions and are looking for answers.
Deborah Orr: "Grayson Perry shows us how the art world works - as a formidable cartel" (Guardian)
Yet Perry nevertheless spoke approvingly of "the chorus of validation", who define what art is. At the top of the tree are the public collectors, the curators of national or municipal collections. This job is taken very seriously. A curator is forbidden from privately collecting any work connected to their professional specialism, because the imprimatur bestowed by inclusion in a public collection raises the value of the artist's work.
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, originally Barney Google, is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Billy DeBeck. Since its debut on June 17, 1919, the strip has gained a huge international readership, appearing in 900 newspapers in 21 countries. The initial appeal of the strip led to its adaptation to film, animation, popular song and television. It added several terms and phrases to the English language and inspired the 1923 hit tune "Barney Google (with the Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes)" with lyrics by Billy Rose, as well as the 1923 record, "Come On, Spark Plug!"
Following "The Goo-Goo Song" (1900), the word "Google" was introduced in 1913 in Vincent Cartwright Vickers' The Google Book, a children's book about the Google and other fanciful creatures who live in Googleland: "The Google has a beautiful garden which is guarded night and day. All through the day he sleeps in a pool of water in the center of the garden; but when the night comes, he slowly crawls out of the pool and silently prowls around for food." Aware of the word's appeal, DeBeck launched his comic strip six years later, and the "goo-goo-googly" lyrics in the 1923 song "Barney Google" focused attention on the novelty of the word.
When mathematician and Columbia University professor Edward Kasner was challenged in the late 1930s to devise a name for a very large number, he asked his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, to suggest a word. The youthful comic strip reader told Kasner to use "Google". Kasner agreed, and in 1940, he introduced the words "googol" and "googolplex" in his book, Mathematics and the Imagination. Milton Sirotta died in 1980. This is the term that Larry Page and Sergey Brin had in mind when they named their company in 1998, but they intentionally misspelled "googol" as "google," bringing it back full circle to Vickers' form. In 2002, when Page set up a scanning device at Google to test how fast books could be scanned, the first book he scanned was Vickers' The Google Book.
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Dave ("The pursuit of knowledge is hopeless and eternal. Hooray!" -- Prof. Farnsworth, "Futurama") was first, and correct, with:
Ah, Barney Google. Before my time, and now I use a different Google. Still, the song was catchy.
Alan J answered:
Barney Google
mj wrote:
That would be
The man who owned Spark Plug, Barney Google.
Leo in Maryland said:
According to a 1923 hit tune, Barney Google had the "Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes". Barney was the main character of a comic strip that debuted in 1919. The strip, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, is still being published, although Barney has been phased out.
Maurice responded:
Barney Google
Charlie replied:
Barney Google
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Barney Google
Adam answered:
Barney Google.
David responded:
Why, Barney Google, of course
Sally said:
Before the days of, "Duck Dynasty," we had the comic version: "Snuffy Smith" and "Barney Google," with his, "Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes."
As if the comic were not bad enough, there was also a song about the backwoods Mr Google... I had all but forgotten about them.
PS: Shout out the MAM and JoeS! Miss you both, come back soon!
Marian replied:
Barney Google
MAM took the day off.
Lois Of Oregon answered:
Barney Google had nothing on this guy...
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcalifall, took the day off.
BttbBob wrote:
Lady Goo-goo? - Har!
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No, it's Barney Google, o' course...
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LMAO! Moment - (No, longer than a moment... a lot longer)
Lions 40 'Da Bears' 32... and it was nowhere even that close...
Chew on that, Ditka... Yeah, you, Mikey...
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Happy Birthday this day to:
(55) This lady has the most annoying voice on any screen size - EVER!
Other than that, she's pretty cool...
(1924-1984) Growing up in Fenton, MI a family next door, the Baker's, were from Iowa. Mrs. Baker's maiden name was Clutter. She was a first cousin to Herbert Clutter...
Saudi cleric says driving risks damaging women's ovaries
Women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and producing children with clinical problems, according to a conservative Saudi cleric. The comment, made by Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan, came as activists step up their campaign for women in Saudi Arabia to be allowed to drive. Women are being called upon to defy the ban and drive on 26 October...
"If a woman drives a car, not out of pure necessity, that could have negative physiological impacts as functional and physiological medical studies show that it automatically affects the ovaries and pushes the pelvis upwards," Sheikh Lohaidan told the news website Sabq.org...
BBC News - Saudi cleric says driving risks damaging women's ovaries
Really? Seriously? This makes me want to partially quote Mr. Escobar, the Drug Lord, in "Get Shorty" - "Why are you talking to me this bullshit? I think maybe I have (my Cousin Bruno from Milwaukee) staple your tongue to your chin! What do you think?" Jeesh! I mean, it's bad enough that our 'fundies' want us to believe that the world is only about 6,000 years old and Adam and Eve frolicked with the dinosaurs. But, this! This is truly religious insanity... Saudi women! Find this guy and give him a swift kick in 'nads, eh?
It was a beautiful sunny autumn afternoon, and also the last day to take advantage of the
AquaBus and
AquaLink for the season, so we took the catamaran around the harbor.
Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA 09/29/13
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'How I Met Your Mother', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'We Are Men', then a FRESH'2 Broke Girls', then a FRESH'Mom', followed by a FRESH'Hostages'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Sean Hayes and Sting.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Simon Helberg and the Naked and Famous.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH 2-hour 'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'The Blacklist'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Magic Johnson, Marjorie Johnson, and Gary Clark Jr.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Kevin Nealon, Elizabeth Olsen, and the Avett Brothers.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/21/13) are Adam DeVine, James Gulliver Hancock, and Milo Greene.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH 2-hour 'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'Castle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Danny DeVito, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and the Lumineers.
The CW fills the night with the FRESH'iHeartRadio Music Festival, Night 1'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'Sleepy Hollow'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', 'Barter Kings', another 'Barter Kings', and still another 'Barter Kings'.
AMC offers the movie 'Shooter', followed by the RERUN'Breaking Bad' finale.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 7
[9:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 8
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 8 - Attached
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 9 - Force of Nature
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 10 - Inheritance
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 5 - The Curry Lounge
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 8 - Sabatiello's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 8 - Peter's
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 6
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 7
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 2
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 3
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 12-13 - Episode 1
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 12-13 - Episode 2
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR: THE WORST CAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 5
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 6
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 2
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 3
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 7
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 07-08 - Episode 1
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR: THE WORST CAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'I Dream Of NeNe', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Miami', and another 'Real Housewives Of Miami'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', 'Brickleberry', and 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Bill O'Really.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Vince Gilligan.
FX has the movie 'Eagle Eye', followed by the movie 'Unstoppable', then the movie 'Unstoppable', again.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', another 'Ancient Aliens', still another 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Marvin's Room
[8:15AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-Finally! The Last Episode (Ever) (For Now ...)
[9:30AM] Bunk
[10:00AM] Five Fingers
[11:45AM] Escape From Alcatraz
[2:15PM] Hanna
[4:30PM] Five Fingers
[6:15PM] The Blair Witch Project
[8:00PM] The Hills Have Eyes 2
[10:00PM] House of 1000 Corpses
[12:00AM] Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
[1:45AM] The Hills Have Eyes 2
[3:45AM] House of 1000 Corpses (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Great Expectations
[8:30AM] Stripes
[10:45AM] St. Elmo's Fire
[1:00PM] The Big Chill
[3:15PM] Michael Clayton
[5:45PM] Stripes
[8:00PM] The Hurt Locker
[11:00PM] Breaking Bad-Better Call Saul
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-4 Days Out
[1:00AM] The Hurt Locker
[4:00AM] The Big Kahuna (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Drive Angry', followed by the movie 'Ghost Rider'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Demi Lovato, J.B. Smoove, and Moby.
Actress Martha Plimpton speaks during an Affordable Care Act outreach event hosted by Planned Parenthood for the Latino community in Los Angeles, California September 28, 2013. Enrollment for the Affordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as Obamacare, begins next week on October 1.
Photo by Jonathan Alcorn
Love, as in his world-famous LOVE image - stacked letters with a tilted O - that became a symbol of the "make love, not war" 1960s counterculture revolution.
That one image eclipsed all his other work. But now the artist's first major retrospective titled "Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE" at the Whitney Museum of American Art that opened Thursday could change that.
"It's a dream come true, a little late," Indiana, who turned 85 this month, said in an interview at the museum this week surrounded by 95 works he created over the past five decades.
The image both "blessed and cursed" him, said Barbara Haskell, the exhibition's curator. It's so famous and so ubiquitous - reproduced on everything from coffee cups to T-shirts without Indiana's permission - that "it has obscured the depth and breadth of everything else he did."
Stevie Wonder performs at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013 in New York. Stevie Wonder gave and electrifying performance at New York's Central Park in front of thousands of fans and several world leaders Saturday, singing his hits and calling for an end to poverty worldwide at the Global Citizen Festival.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Dorothy Villarreal grew up dreaming in Spanish, first in Mexico and later in South Texas, where her family moved when she was six. She excelled in school - in English. But at home life was in Spanish, from the long afternoon chats with her grandparents to the Spanish-language version of Barbie magazines she eagerly awaited each month. She figured she was fluent in both languages.
Then the Harvard University junior spent last summer studying in Mexico and realized just how big the gaps in her Spanish were.
"We were talking about the presidential election, and there was so much I wanted to explain," Villarreal said. "We'd end up playing a guessing game where I'd speak in English, and my friends, they'd speak back in Spanish to guess what I was saying."
Villarreal's experience is increasingly common in America, where one in five children grows up in a home where English isn't the sole language. To help them fill in the gaps, universities are adapting their foreign language curriculum, in part to better prepare graduates for a globalized world where it pays to be professionally fluent in more than one language.
Alicia Keys performs at the Global Citizen Festival supported by unite4:good and the PVBLIC Foundation in Central Park on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013 in New York.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Several European animal and bird species driven to near extinction by humans have made a dramatic comeback in the past 50 years thanks to conservation efforts, a report said Thursday.
In rare good news for the continent's wildlife, the report points to a 3,000-percent boost for the European bison, Eurasian beaver, White-headed duck and some populations of Pink-footed goose.
The study boasted growth for 17 of the 18 mammal species analysed, which also included a doubling of brown bear numbers and a quadrupling of grey wolves.
The Iberian lynx was the only mammal among those studied to have declined in numbers, the rest of which increased their distribution range in Europe by about 30 percent overall since the mid 20th century, the report said.
All of the 19 bird species measured showed recovery.
A court in the northern Russian city of Murmansk on Sunday sent all eight remaining Greenpeace activists to jail for two months, showing no leniency toward any of the 30 people detained for a protest at a drilling platform in Arctic waters.
Twenty activists and two journalists were ordered jailed for two months during a marathon court session on Thursday that stretched late into night, but the court had ruled to hold the remaining eight only until new hearings could be held on Sunday.
No charges have been brought against any of the activists, who are citizens of 18 countries, including Russia. Russian prosecutors are considering whether to charge them with piracy, among other offences, and the activists are being held pending the investigation.
The Russian Coast Guard disrupted an attempt on Sept. 18 by two of the activists to scale an offshore platform owned by Russian state-controlled energy giant Gazprom to call attention to the environmental risks of drilling in Arctic waters. The next day, the Coast Guard seized Greenpeace's ship, the Arctic Sunrise, and then towed it to Murmansk with the crew and activists aboard.
American journalist Jeremy Scahill, right, and Glenn Greenwald wait for the beginning of a panel following the screening of the "Dirty Wars" documentary at the Rio Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Greenwald, who has thousands of leaked National Security Archive documents, participated in a panel with Scahill following the screening of the documentary "Dirty Wars" based on his book by the same name about covert operations.
Photo by Silvia Izquierdo
Two teenagers have been arrested after a San Francisco television reporter was robbed and his security guard opened fire on the suspects, in the latest of a number of robberies targeting local television news crews and photojournalists.
KRON 4 reporter Jeff Bush and the security guard were working on a story on Friday in San Francisco's Bayview district, a high-crime area, when two armed men demanded Bush's equipment, the station said in a story on its website.
Bush "immediately surrendered the equipment and took cover," the station said in the post. The security guard accompanying him fired shots, hitting one of the gunmen, the station reported.
Officers later arrested two 19-year-old men from San Francisco and charged them with robbery, weapons and conspiracy offenses, said Danielle Newman, spokeswoman for the San Francisco Police Department.
KRON 4 sends security guards with reporters on assignments in high-crime areas after other recent incidents of Bay Area journalists being robbed, said a KRON newsroom employee familiar with the policy but who did not want to be identified.
Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, right, and Andreas Kronthaler acknowledge applause following the presentation of Westwood's ready-to-wear Spring/Summer 2014 fashion collection, presented Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013 in Paris.
Photo by Christophe Ena
Tin Tun picked all night through teetering heaps of rubble to find the palm-sized lump of jade he now holds in his hand. He hopes it will make him a fortune. It's happened before.
"Last year I found a stone worth 50 million kyat," he said, trekking past the craters and slag heaps of this notorious jade-mining region in northwest Myanmar Burma. That's about $50,000 - and it was more than enough money for Tin Tun, 38, to buy land and build a house in his home village.
But rare finds by small-time prospectors like Tin Tun pale next to the staggering wealth extracted on an industrial scale by Myanmar's military, the tycoons it helped enrich, and companies linked to the country where most jade ends up: China.
Almost half of all jade sales are "unofficial" - that is, spirited over the border into China with little or no formal taxation. This represents billions of dollars in lost revenues that could be spent on rebuilding a nation shattered by nearly half a century of military dictatorship.
Official statistics confirm these missing billions. Myanmar Burma produced more than 43 million kg of jade in fiscal year 2011/12 (April to March). Even valued at a conservative $100 per kg, it was worth $4.3 billion. But official exports of jade that year stood at only $34 million.
Pearly queens and a pearly princess wait for the start of a harvest festival procession outside the Guildhall, in London September 29, 2013. The Pearly Kings and Queens are a London tradition dating back to the 19th century and they work to collect money for local charities.
Photo by Andrew Winning
The shallow dirt grave into which King Richard III's body was hurriedly tossed, and centuries later covered up by a concrete parking lot, must top the list of ignominious royal burials.
It was inevitable, perhaps, that its discovery last September would be followed by calls for the 15th-century monarch, immortalized by Shakespeare as a miserable, murderous wretch, to finally receive a proper interment, with the tomb, ceremony, and dignity usually afforded a king.
However, what's happened so far has been short on dignity.
"It has got a bit grubby," says David Grummitt, a specialist in late medieval and early Tudor history at the University of Kent. "I don't know if anyone has really thought about what Richard III himself would have wanted."
In the year since the bones were exhumed in Leicester by archaeologists at the city's university, a series of bitter disputes has complicated the process of laying the king to rest in a new grave.
A girl dressed in traditional attire poses as she takes part in rehearsals for the "garba" dance ahead of Navratri festival in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad September 29, 2013. Navratri, held in honour of Hindu Goddess Durga, is celebrated over a period of nine days where thousands of youths dance the night away in traditional costumes. Navratri starts on October 5.
Photo by Amit Dave
"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" slurped up the box office.
The animated Sony sequel featuring the voices of Bill Hader and Anna Faris opened in first place and earned $35 million in its debut weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Last week's top film, "Prisoners," slid to second place. The Warner Bros. kidnapping thriller starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal nabbed $11.3 million in its second weekend, bringing its total domestic haul to $38.9 million.
Universal's Formula One tale "Rush," directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, drove into the third position with $10.3 million in its second outing after expanding to 2,297 theaters in wide release.
The weekend's other new releases - Fox Searchlight's "Baggage Claim" and Relativity's "Don Jon" - didn't have debuts quite as sunny as "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2."
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2," $35 million.
2. "Prisoners," $11.3 million ($4.1 million international).
3. "Rush," $10.3 million ($5.6 million international).
4. "Baggage Claim," $9.3 million.
5. "Don Jon," $9 million ($500,000 international).
6. "Insidious: Chapter 2," $6.7 million ($4.9 million international).
7. "The Family," $3.7 million ($900,000 international).
8. "Instructions Not Included," $3.4 million ($8 million international).
9. "We're the Millers," $2.9 million ($7.1 million international).
10. "Lee Daniels' The Butler," $2.4 million ($1.9 million international).
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