Uncertain future ... US car giant General Motors has filed for bankruptcy. (AP)
- CNN: Congratulations, you now own your first car company. General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection early this morning, a move once viewed as unthinkable… as a matter of fact, you shoveled billions of tax dollars into the coffers at GM to avoid bankruptcy but it happened anyway. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a refund on that one. When it’s all said and done, the government will own 60% of whatever comes out of bankruptcy.
- ABC: This sounds like something that would be on House next season. An artist has a deadly brain lesion, but he doesn’t want to get rid of it because he thinks it is fueling his creativity. So you’ve got a choice, make your mark on the art world and die young because of the brain lesion, or have it removed and risk losing your talent. Which would you choose?
- Sky News: A British professor is doing a psychic test on Twitter. He’ll have test subjects guessing which of four pictures is from a secret location he’s chosen. He’ll do it for a few weeks, making a correct call of all the locations a 1 in 125 shot. But you CAN get that by random guessing, so is that really proof of ESP? Just in case you were wondering, one of the Apollo14 astronauts did something similar on the way back from the Moon and got in a lot of trouble about it.
- RunPee.com: Finally someone has created a website that actually has a useful purpose: It tells you when it’s safe to take a pee break during movies. It analyzes the plot and gives you advance word on when you can go without missing anything that’ll be necessary to figure out what’s going on later.
- Washington Post: Could the book publishing business be the next industry to fall by the wayside? Interestingly enough this isn’t a result of the digital age. People aren’t adopting e-readers at the same rate they’re cutting their purchases of regular books, so people just flat out aren’t reading as much anymore. Which is sad.
- Guardian: Millvina Dean died over the weekend at the age of 97. Why is that worth mentioning? Dean was the last living Titanic survivor. We might need to put an asterisk on that one though, she was only two months old at the time, and had no memory of it. As a matter of fact she didn’t even know that she was on the ill-fated ocean liner until she was 8 years old.
