Zodiac whacked
Published 12:01 am Monday, January 17, 2011
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars: A Minneapolis astronomy professor says he was surprised by the angry reaction to his claim that a wobbly Earth orbit means that the currently accepted zodiac calendar is off and that many people were born under different signs than they thought.
Had he checked his horoscope, maybe he wouldn’t have been blindsided: “The news you share today could be upsetting to many, especially if it leads them to doubt their personality traits, lottery numbers and opening lines in singles bars.”
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You “like” me, you really “like” me: “The Social Network,” the movie about the beginnings of Facebook and its controversial creator Mark Zukerberg, won four Golden Globe awards Sunday night.
Zukerberg would have attended the awards ceremony, but he couldn’t find someone to tend to his crops in FarmVille.
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Hold off on the monogrammed towels: Among the gifts that Queen Elizabeth II will bestow on her new daughter-in-law, Kate Middleton, when she weds Prince William, will be a new title. But it’s not known if she’ll be a princess, duchess or countess.
Under the most formal of traditions, she could end up dubbed Princess William of Wales. This is what they’re talking about when they say it’s good to be queen.
