Willow Smith may or may not go back in time and revisit a classic character by portraying Annie on the big screen. But Will Smith’s daughter is definitely making it clear in a new song that she’s a 21st century girl at heart. In fact, that will be the title of Willow’s next single. “It’s a dance record,” the 10-year old wrote on Facebook of the tune. “I know you love to dance, don’t cha’…” Well,… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Hollywood Gossip Discovery Date : 24/01/2011 21:11 Number of articles : 3
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Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says there is “no doubt” that he will prevail in his fight to run for Chicago mayor. He told reporters that an appeals court ruling to boot him off the Feb. 22 ballot is just one turn in the road. (Jan. 24)
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Sometimes our modern life can feel overwhelming. Sometimes it can feel like it’s all too much — like everything is happening at once, and you’ve got no control over anything. Sometimes, the gadgets we buy to make our lives simpler end up making them a lot more complicated. We suspect that similar sentiments drove the brains behind the new IFC sketch comedy show Portlandia (Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein) to come up with the bizarre, hilarious video in this post. Just a word of warning — once you see it, you can never un-see it. Watch at your own risk… after the break. Continue reading Fred Armisen gets caught in a technology loop, discovers MiND-Fi Fred Armisen gets caught in a technology loop, discovers MiND-Fi originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Ivory Coast’s president-elect Alassane Outtara is holed up in a hotel that has been encircled by the army, on orders of incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, for two months. Now, Outtara tells Time , he’s ready for West Africa’s economic community to use force. “I wanted to give peace and dialogue a chance….
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — A prime minister chosen by Hezbollah and its allies was poised Monday to form Lebanon’s next government, unleashing angry protests, realigning politics here and in parts of the Mideast and culminating the generation-long ascent of the Shiite Muslim movement from shadowy militant group to the country’s pre-eminent political and military force. –> –> A practical impact may be the realignment of Lebanon away from the United States, which treated the government of Saad Hariri as an ally. The government that Najib Miqati, a billionaire and former prime minister, forms may in the end look much like past cabinets in this small Mediterranean country and, indeed,…
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President Obama will focus squarely on the economy, and his plans to boost job growth and US competitiveness in his State of the Union address. AP’s Julie Pace reports. (Jan. 24)
Continue reading …Apple Fail: Company Scores Last in Report on Workers’ Rights and Environmental Practices
January 24, 2011 No Comment
Image: BindApple.com This hasn’t been a great month for Apple: bad publicity for waging war on the little guy and the art of self-repair with the Pentalobe screw , the unfortunate news that Steve Jobs’ health has taken a bad turn, and now a report coming out of China that puts the company last in a list of 29 tech giants ranked for their responses on pollution and workers’ rights, including occupational health hazards, at the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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enlarge Apparently living in DC all those years works against you when trying to prove your Chicago residency to run for Mayor. Who knew? So Rahm Emanuel, who left the position of Chief of Staff of the Obama White House to realize his personal dream of Mayor of Chi-Town, is off the ballot . A state appeals court ruled on Monday that Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff, cannot run for mayor of Chicago in February because he was not a resident of the city for a full year before the election. The ruling overturned decisions by a lower court and a Chicago elections board that had allowed Emanuel on the February 22 ballot. A Chicago Tribune poll published last week showed Emanuel leading the race by a comfortable margin. Emanuel’s attorney has promised to file an appeal either today or tomorrow. Guess that those more than $10 million in donations will come in handy for his legal fees.
Continue reading …Joe Klein: ‘Olbermann is a Brilliant Writer…I Always Enjoy Watching Him Even When He’s Occasionally Wrong’
January 24, 2011 No Comment
Just how far to the left is Time's Joe Klein? He actually thinks “Keith [Olbermann] is a brilliant writer, and presenter; I always enjoy watching him, even when he's occasionally wrong”: I'm not so sure what this dispute with MSNBC is all about, but I'm sad that Keith won't be around (at least, for a while). If there is a place for the nonsense-spew of Fox News, there has to be a place on my cable dial for Olbermann (who, while occasionally obnoxious, operates from a base of reality–unlike some people we know [see below]). Keith is a brilliant writer, and presenter; I always enjoy watching him, even when he's occasionally wrong. I hope I'll have the opportunity to do so again soon. In the meantime, I hope he'll heed the words of the master and “Go forth, and spread beauty and light.” Go forth and spread beauty and light? Is that what Klein thinks this conveyor of half-truths and invective has been doing the past eight years? Keep that in mind the next time you consider taking Klein seriously.
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