Paul Krugman: The Dwindling Deficit (New York Times)
… neither the current deficit nor projected future spending deserve to be anywhere near the top of our political agenda. It's time to focus on other stuff - like the still-depressed state of the economy and the still-terrible problem of long-term unemployment.
Good Invention: Thanks, Sweden (YouTube)
The chains you see under school buses are part of a system call Onspot and are used for traction control activated with the push of a button
Modeling Agency Specializes in Ugly People (Neatorama)
"Ugly Models, a London-based modeling agency, specializes in getting photographers models with unusual physical appearances. At their website, you can view their four categories: men, women, "specials" and Guinness World Records." That last category is...wow. Just wow.
Born Jacob Aaron Gellman, one of his unique impressions was of "split pea soup coming to a furious boil" using only his face. By what name is this actor better known?
In November 2009, Tinker Bell became the smallest waxwork ever to be made at Madame Tussauds, measuring only five and a half inches.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Tinker Bell
Charlie wrote:
Unveiled on November 10, 2008, it's Tinker Bell.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Tinker Bell immortalized at Madame Tussauds
Adam answered:
Tinker Bell.
Marian responded:
Tinker Bell
Sally said:
"Tinker Bell" is the smallest waxwork ever to be made at Madame Tussauds' Wax Museum, measuring only five and a half inches high.
Sorry, no Tinker Bell photo available here...
PS: Without cable TV, and having an old set, I have 2 converter boxes that must be used, in the age of digital TV, in order to get reception. Every once in a while, the boxes need to be reset. I did this today, and have added COZI station! I can now watch, "Lassie," "The Lone Ranger," and, "Hopalong Cassidy," which is really bad... Also heard some of the old words, like "Red skin," "Injun," and "dirty, no good varmint!"
June 12, 1960...
DDDDDale of Diamond Springs took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Tinker Bell
BttbBob replied:
Peter Pan?... If so, its face should look like this...
Hook (1991) - IMDb ... A lovely film, I'm thinkin'... Who else could play an adult Peter Pan as well as Robin Williams? There's a poll fer ya...
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'Following the Links' Moment - Having read Bruce's link Henry Rollins: Tragedy, and How to Carry On - Los Angeles - Music - West Coast Sound - Page 3 I followed Rollins' most excellent column with his previous Henry Rollins: Led Zeppelin, All Powerful - Los Angeles - Music - West Coast Sound and felt vindicated in my admiration of (and frequent listening to) good ol' 'Zep' (Yeah, you and me, Bart)... Rollins' tie-in to Obama/Romney is hilarious, too.
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"I-don't-think-I-like-this-idea" Moment - Undersea pods to hold US war supplies | Defense Tech "The Navy wants to build unmanned platforms that it can place in the depths of the world's oceans to have them float to the surface when the military needs the supplies or equipment stored within them..."
Really? Ummm... No... No, you may not do that.
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Kudos Moment - For Prince and his Billboard Icon Award... Sure, why not?
Prince - 1999 - Vídeo Dailymotion
The number of times I've danced to that tune is considerable, I'm sayin'...
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Memo to JoeS: Oh, yeah... gettin' old is a laugh a minute, I'm tellin' ya. But, as I always say, "At this point it beats the alternative and that's a fact!"... Yes, I do say that. Besides, Maddie Muffin likes her Grampa too much. 'Nuf said, there.
And, Joe S answered:
Oh, it's Tinker Bell! I should have known.
Well, that's it for tonight folks. It was Wallace's first birthday today, and let me tell ya, it was quite a party! I'm whipped. About 300 photos and 40 videos to follow tomorrow. Stay tuned.
CBS fills the night with LIVE'NFL Playoffs', followed by a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', then maybe a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One', then pads the left coast with local crap.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Biggest Loser', followed by another RERUN'Biggest Loser'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Revenge', followed by RERUN'Shark Tanks'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a RERUN'The Cleveland Show', then a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars Texas', another 'Storage Wars Texas', 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', and yet another 'Storage Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hulk', followed by the movie 'The Transporter'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] JAMES MAY'S TOY STORIES - Season 1 - Ep 5 - Train
[7:00AM] JAMES MAY'S TOY STORIES - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Model Airplane
[8:00AM] JUNGLE: WATERWORLD
[9:00AM] LION: SPY IN THE DEN
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 9
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 10
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 1
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 2
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 3
[3:00PM] CASINO ROYALE (2006)
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 11 - Spin-A-Yarn Steakhouse
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 12 - Charlie's
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 13 - Cafe Hon
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 14 - Chiarella's
[10:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 15 - Zocalo
[11:00PM] JACK THE RIPPER: PRIME SUSPECT
[12:00AM] RIPPER STREET-Season 1 - Ep 1 - I Need Light
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 9
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 10
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 1
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 2
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 3 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Shahs Of Sunset', and another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', followed by the movie 'Joe Dirt', 'Tosh.0', and another 'Tosh.0'.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man 2', followed by the movie 'The A-Team'.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Ax Men', followed by a FRESH'Ax Men', then a FRESH'Bamazon'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Curse of the Golden Flower
[8:30AM] Whisker Wars-The Beard Circuit
[9:00AM] Whisker Wars-West Coast Showdown
[9:30AM] Dilbert-Elbonian Trip
[10:00AM] Dilbert-Tower of Babel
[10:30AM] Dilbert-The Little People
[11:00AM] Dilbert-The Knack
[11:30AM] Dilbert-Y2K
[12:00PM] Arrested Development-Out on a Limb
[12:30PM] Arrested Development-My Hand to God
[1:00PM] Arrested Development-Motherboy XXX
[1:30PM] Arrested Development-Immaculate Election
[2:00PM] Portlandia-Nina's Birthday
[2:30PM] Dark Floors
[4:15PM] The Spirit
[6:30PM] King of New York
[8:45PM] Suicide Kings
[11:00PM] Portlandia-Squiggleman
[11:30PM] Portlandia-Farm
[12:00AM] Ali G Indahouse
[1:45AM] Suicide Kings
[4:15AM] Portlandia-Feminist Bookstore 10th Anniversary
[4:45AM] Portlandia-Squiggleman
[5:15AM] Portlandia-Farm
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
[6:00A] The Edge of Heaven
[8:00A] The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
[10:00A] The Good Thief
[12:00P] The Edge of Heaven
[2:00P] The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
[4:00P] The Good Thief
[6:00P] A Good Year
[8:00P] Thumbsucker
[12:05A] Thumbsucker
[4:00A] Dangerous Parking (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country', followed by the movie 'Star Trek: Generations'.
Ringo Starr (L), his wife Barbara Bach (R) and director Francesca Gregorini attend the premiere of the film "Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes" during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 18, 2013.
Photo by Jim Urquhart
A poem by the late writer Carl Sandburg that appears to have been previously unknown has turned up in the archives of the University of Illinois.
The university says the poem, entitled "A Revolver," was found last week by retired professor Ernie Gullerud as he helped index in Sandburg's archives in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The poem was typed on a manual typewriter. It begins with four lines on the revolver in question. The last two are: "It delivers unmistakable ultimatums. It is the last word."
George Hendrick is an English professor emeritus at Illinois who edited several volumes of Sandburg's poems. He said the poem is authentic and might have been inspired by President Lincoln's assassination.
The poem is undated. The Illinois-born Sandburg died in 1967.
Cast members Joseph Gordon-Levitt (L) and Julianne Moore pose at the premiere of "Don Jon's Addiction" during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah January 18, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
South Africa's Lira will be one among many performers at Barack Obama's inaugural celebrations Monday, but she is determined to be remembered for a performance to rival Marilyn Monroe's wooing of John F. Kennedy.
The multi-platinum artist hopes to give Obama and other guests at the Ambassadors' Inaugural Ball in Washington something as memorable, but perhaps not as racy, as Monroe's "Happy Birthday, Mr President" 1962 enticement to JFK.
"We all remember how she sang Happy Birthday to the president," said the 33-year-old, whose real name is Lerato Molapo.
Lira has chosen to play Obama a song that she has previously performed for a president: "Something inside so strong," by Labi Siffre.
"I played that song for president Mandela in 2010; it was his favourite song when he was still incarcerated."
He's already gotten the Oprah treatment. Now Lance Armstrong is headed for the silver screen.
Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams' production company, Bad Robot, are planning a biopic about the disgraced cyclist, a studio spokeswoman said Friday.
They've secured the rights to New York Times reporter Juliet Macur's upcoming book "Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong," due out in June. Macur covered the seven-time Tour de France winner for over a decade.
No director, writer, star or start date have been set.
Musicians (L-R) Rick Springfield, Dave Grohl and Stevie Nicks arrive for the premiere of the documentary "Sound City" at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 18, 2013.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
Russian officials say the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet will need at least one more operation after an attacker threw acid in his face and that it's not yet clear if the sight in his right eye can be saved.
No arrests have been made in the Thursday night attack on Sergei Filin, which his colleagues say may have been retaliation for his selection of certain dancers for prized roles.
Filin underwent surgery on Friday.
Alexei Levchenko, a spokesman for Russia's deputy prime minister, was quoted by the state news agency ITAR-Tass as saying Filin was in stable condition after the operation but that "the prospects for restoring his sight will be clearer in five to seven days."
A suburban New York newspaper that outraged gun owners by posting the names and addresses of residents with handgun permits removed the information from its website Friday.
The Journal News took down the data just three days after the state enacted a gun control law that included privacy provisions for permit holders.
The provisions were a reaction to interactive maps the newspaper published on LoHud.com that pinpointed thousands of permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties.
The maps remained online late Friday but could no longer be manipulated to find names and addresses.
Musician Rami Jaffee and actress Daryl Hannah arrive for the premiere of the documentary "Sound City" at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 18, 2013.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
Country music singer Randy Travis has reached a plea agreement in a misdemeanor assault case arising from an altercation last summer in a Texas church parking lot, KTVT-TV reported on Saturday.
The Grammy winner will serve 90 days of deferred adjudication under a plea he entered on Friday in a municipal court in Plano, a Dallas suburb, the CBS-affiliated station in Dallas/Forth Worth reported.
Deferred adjudication lets a defendant plead "guilty" or "no contest" in exchange for meeting requirements such as probation during the period. The defendant may avoid a formal conviction or have his case dismissed once the requirements are met.
Police said Travis assaulted a man in the parking lot of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano on August 23 while attempting to intervene in a disagreement between a woman, who is now his fiancée, and her estranged husband.
Actress Allison Janney arrives for the premiere of the film "Touchy Feely" at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 19, 2013.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
A Brazilian judge has ordered the erotic trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey" taken off the shelves of bookstores in the city of Macae, or at least wrapped to prevent minors from opening them.
A statement by the Rio de Janeiro State Judiciary Department says Judge Raphael Queiroz Campos issued the order after he saw children in one of city's bookstores looking through erotic books.
Elven copies of the "Grey" series are among 64 books taken from the shelves of two bookstores because their content was deemed "improper" for youths under the age of 18.
The books can be returned to the shelves only if they are sealed and placed out of reach of minors.
Anita Hill poses for a portrait during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, in Park City, Utah. Hill made national headlines in 1991 when she testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her. Now, more than 20 years later, director Freida Mock explores Hill's landmark testimony and the resulting social and political changes in the documentary "Anita," premiering Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival.
Photo by Victorial Will
The Bank of Canada has barked up the wrong maple tree with its new plastic banknotes, using a foreign Norway maple leaf as the emblem on the notes instead of the sugar maple that the country has on its national flag, an eagle-eyed Canadian botanist says.
The untrained eye might not at first spot the difference between the maple leaf on the new $20, $50 and $100 bills and the North American sugar maple.
But it is clear to Sean Blaney, a botanist who tracks plants for the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Center in New Brunswick, and who brought it first to the attention of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
He said the Norway maple has more lobes or sections and has a more pointed outline than the sugar maple, and the lobe that rises in the center is shorter than the sugar maple's.
The central bank said the image on the new bills was purposefully designed not to represent any specific species but rather to be a combination of various kinds.
Girls dressed as Santo Nino (Child Jesus) join a religious procession on the eve of Santo Nino Festival in Manila January 19, 2013.
Photo by Cheryl Ravelo
The original Batmobile from the 1960s television series has sold at auction for $4.2 million.
A spokeswoman for the Barrett-Jackson Auction Co. in Scottsdale, Ariz., says the winning bidder has not been disclosed following Saturday's auction.
The 19-foot-long black, bubble-topped car was used in the "Batman" TV show that starred Adam West as the Caped Crusader.
The car's owner - famed auto customizer George Barris, of Los Angeles - transformed a one-of-a-kind 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car into the sleek crime-fighting machine. On the show, it boasted lasers and a "Batphone" and could lay down smoke screens and oil slicks.
A parishioner, wearing a traditional mask and costume, dances during a feast in honour of Saint Sebastian, patron saint of Diriamba, in Diriamba about 45 km (28 miles) south of Managua January 19, 2013.
Photo by Oswaldo Rivas
Talk about whisky on ice: Three bottles of rare, 19th century Scotch found beneath the floor boards of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackelton's abandoned expedition base were returned to the polar continent Saturday after a distiller flew them to Scotland to recreate the long-lost recipe.
But not even New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, who personally returned the stash, got a taste of the contents of the bottles of Mackinlay's whisky, which were rediscovered 102 years after the explorer was forced to leave them behind.
The whisky will be transferred by March from Ross Island to Shackelton's desolate hut at Cape Royds and replaced beneath the restored hut as part of a program to protect the legacy of the so-called heroic era of Antarctic exploration from 1898 to 1915.
Bottled in 1898 after the blend was aged 15 years, the Mackinlay bottles were among three crates of Scotch and two of brandy buried beneath a basic hut Shackleton had used during his dramatic 1907 Nimrod excursion to the Antarctic. The expedition failed to reach the South Pole but set a record at the time for reaching the farthest southern latitude. Shackelton was knighted after his return to Great Britain.
Distiller Whyte & Mackay, which now owns the Mackinlay brand, chartered a private jet to take the bottles from the Antarctic operations headquarters in the New Zealand city of Christchurch to Scotland for analysis in 2011.
A hotel room is seen as construction continues in North America's first ever Lego Hotel being built at Legoland in Carlsbad, California January 17, 2013. The three-story, 250-room hotel will open on April 5.
Photo by Mike Blake
Jan. 20, 2009 was an historic day. Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States.
On the Internet that day there was another historic occurrence. It had to do with a hat.
It was Aretha Franklin's hat, of course. The gray, big-bowed hat, which she wore as she sang "My Country 'Tis of Thee" couldn't be missed. It became the inspiration for one of the first real Internet memes. Photos of the hat -- on her, on cats, on Obama, on Dick Cheney, on Spock, on Waldo and so many others -- made the rounds for weeks.
A good meme always lives on the Internet, but ABC News has learned that it will live on at the 2013 inauguration itself.
Luke Song, the designer and creator of Ms. Franklin's famous hat, said he has had hundreds of requests for copies of it in the last couple of weeks.
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The original Batmobile from the 1960s television series has sold at auction for $4.2 million.
