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'Thriller' Named to Film Registry
The posthumous honors keep rolling in for Michael Joseph Jackson. Today, it was announced that the ‘Thriller’ video will be preserved by the Library of Congress. From The Washington Post “Thriller,” a 14-minute video promoting the song of the same name, represented a revolutionary moment in film and popular culture when it was first released…
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Nigeria to Buy 3-D Body Scanners for Airports
Nigeria is about to kick it into 3-D gear following Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s underwear bomb passed through security at its largest airport. From The Washington Post: LAGOS, Nigeria — A Nigerian official says the nation will purchase 3-D, full body scanners after a man passed through Nigeria’s biggest airport before trying to bring down a…
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Listen Up! New Airport Scanners Considered 'Intrusive'
Full body scanners could be nifty on the safety front, but the issue of privacy and scanner image misuse has people wondering whether or not their use at the airport security line is a good idea. From NPR: The equipment is designed to produce full-body images of airline passengers and presumably anything they might be…
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The Underwear Bomber has 287 Facebook Friends
The Washington Post does the legwork on 23 year-old Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, who—like many young people—kept a facebook page, posted on online chatrooms, and experienced conflict with family and friends. From the report: In his January 2005 posting about his loneliness, Farouk1986 wrote about the tension between his desires and his…
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Check It Out: The Paths We Tread
Since the decade’s over and just about everyone has decided we need to do better, let’s remember just what it is we need to improve upon. NewsOne has done us the favor(?) of compiling a list of…some less-than- fine, albeit amusing, web clips from the 00s. Here’s a taste
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…And Now They Really Hate You, Elderick
Not that cheating on your wife is tight, but costing people money reallllllly sticks in the craw. From The New York Daily News: Tiger Woods is not the only one who blew big bucks with his image-busting cheating spree. His losses are chump change compared with the up to $12 billion that the scandal has…
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Avatar = Dances with Wolves v. 2.0?
Lots of chatter surrounding Avatar and its possible ‘benevolent white guy has an Amazing Grace moment.’ Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic brings up a Dances with Wolves parallel (after our own Teresa Wiltz had done the same a few days ago) More interesting to me is the constant comparisons with Dances With Wolves. I need…
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Jim DeMint v. Baggage Handlers
Our colleague Adam Serwer goes in on Jim DeMint over at Firedog Lake: Over the weekend, a cacophony of shrieking Republican legislators attacked the President for not treating the failed X-Mas bomber with the same gravity Cuban Missile Crisis. One2 of the more transparently craven statements made was Senator Jim DeMint’s implication that the Obama…
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Reviewing Pop Culture in the ‘00s
At the beginning of the Aughties, things looked dire for pop culture. With the decimation of the Twin Towers, we retreated into shock, making all sorts of promises we knew we couldn’t keep: Hollywood execs, declaring a desire to help in the war-on-terror effort, hovered behind closed doors at the White House. Clear Channel put…
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Somali Pirates Don't Get the Memo, Seize Two Ships
Somali pirates back up to their hijinks! From CNN: The UK-flagged chemical tanker St. James Park, with 23 crew members aboard, was attacked at 14:49 UTC Monday (9:49 a.m. ET), said Michael Howlett, spokesman for the Maritime Bureau. The vessel was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden, the European Union Naval Force in Somalia said…
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