PC Boom, YouTube Surprise Star, Swans Virus, Dancing "Stars," and the Controversial Iranian Exhibit
1. Beware the combustible computer. Yesterday, the world's largest PC maker, Dell, announced its recall of 4.1 laptop batteries because of their affinity for exploding into flames. Perhaps to avoid the PR hell it's already in, Dell blamed the too-hot-to-handle batteries on its manufacturer, Sony. (NYT)
2. Peter or Geriatric1927, a 78 or 79 year old user, posted his first video on YouTube a week ago and now finds himself on top of the most-subscribed list, with 79,000 viewings and already 6,500 subscribers. Geriatric1927 charmed his way into YouTube-users' hearts with comments such as, "What I hope I will be able to do is to just to bitch and grumble about life in general from the perspective of an old person who has been there and done that and hopefully you will respond in some way by your comments." And, oh, how they have. (Reuters)
3. The bird flu virus was found in a pair of Michigan swans, but officials have said that the virus was a downgraded/undeadly version of the H5N1 strain. Nature will have one sick sense of humor if the pathogenic strain was found in a lonely ugly duckling instead. *Cross fingers!* (Fox)
4. Talk about bizarre "celebrity" news: once bow-tied Tucker Carlson, "Saved by the Bell"'s Mario Lopez, and talk-show host Jerry Springer will be part of the lineup in the third season of "Dancing with the Stars." (TwinCities)
5. In a case for equal-opportunity prejudice, the Iran Cartoon Organization and Hamshahri newspaper are putting on a Holocaust cartoon exhibit in a museum in Tehran in response to the Prophet Muhammad caricatures published in European newspapers. Organizer Masoud Shojai said, "You see they allow the Prophet to be insulted. But when we talk about the Holocaust, they consider it so holy that they punish people for questioning it." (BBC)
2. Peter or Geriatric1927, a 78 or 79 year old user, posted his first video on YouTube a week ago and now finds himself on top of the most-subscribed list, with 79,000 viewings and already 6,500 subscribers. Geriatric1927 charmed his way into YouTube-users' hearts with comments such as, "What I hope I will be able to do is to just to bitch and grumble about life in general from the perspective of an old person who has been there and done that and hopefully you will respond in some way by your comments." And, oh, how they have. (Reuters)
3. The bird flu virus was found in a pair of Michigan swans, but officials have said that the virus was a downgraded/undeadly version of the H5N1 strain. Nature will have one sick sense of humor if the pathogenic strain was found in a lonely ugly duckling instead. *Cross fingers!* (Fox)
4. Talk about bizarre "celebrity" news: once bow-tied Tucker Carlson, "Saved by the Bell"'s Mario Lopez, and talk-show host Jerry Springer will be part of the lineup in the third season of "Dancing with the Stars." (TwinCities)
5. In a case for equal-opportunity prejudice, the Iran Cartoon Organization and Hamshahri newspaper are putting on a Holocaust cartoon exhibit in a museum in Tehran in response to the Prophet Muhammad caricatures published in European newspapers. Organizer Masoud Shojai said, "You see they allow the Prophet to be insulted. But when we talk about the Holocaust, they consider it so holy that they punish people for questioning it." (BBC)
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