Say NO to Bush and Doyle and Yes to Aspartame

Apparently, a contemporary picture of Chinese people when festive.

1. Today is the Qingming, or "Clear and Bright," Festival for the Chinese, which apparently is the time for people to go outside, enjoy spring, and "tomb sweep," which is what the holiday also goes by. I wonder if seeing Thank You for Smoking and drinking heavily would suitably substitute for celebrating.

2. Via a free software called Bootcamp, Apple will now allow Windows to run on its (Intel) machines. Was that why it snowed earlier today? (NYT)

3. Fake sugar is A(for Aspartame)-okay, says a federal study that was based off the diets of 500,000 "older" Americans, allaying fears that were prompted by scary rat study results, i.e. rat bladder cancer, lymphomas and leukemia. Apparently no link to cancer was found in the human study--but there was a quiet sadness from their being placed in the "older" category. (ABC News)

4. According to a survey from the awesome Scholastic News, 80% of American children today are saying NO to being President, compared to 75% that were saying YES in 2004. Scholastic editors were baffled by the sudden flip-flop but didn't necessarily attribute the change to the sudden dip in Bush's popularity. Perhaps their saturation in the liberal sexafied media curbed their ambitions into the unsexafied political realm then? Ponder ponder... (Daily News)

5. Brian Doyle, 55, the deputy press secretary for Homeland Security, is facing 23 charges in Florida for trying to seduce someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl and "transmitting harmful material to a minor." He also had sexually explicit phone conversations with the same said girl/Oscar-worthy detective. And the political realm just got sexafied... (Reuters)

6. Eminem files for divorce again from Kim Mathers. I've said this for celebrities before, but uh, they were married (again)? (Star)

7. The AMC Loews in the UWS has pulled the trailer for the 9/11 flick "United 93," when some members of the audience began crying out "too soon!" when the trailer played. (PR Newswire)