A new billboard campaign encourages Americans to cast aside the recession blues and think positively about the future.
The roadside signage will be especially effective when we’re all living out of our cars.
Closed book: Actor Michael Gambon, who plays Dumbledore in the “Harry Potter” movies, discloses that he hasn’t read any of the books in the series. He says co-star Alan Rickman hasn’t, either.
Somehow, the knowledge that men in their 60s don’t read children’s books cheers us up a lot more than those billboards ever could.
Capricorn One: In an embarrassing confession, NASA says it erased video tape of the Apollo 11 moon shot.
NASA says it reused the erased tape, presumably to record the telecast of “Heidi” in 1972.
Luckily NASA found four surviving copies of the tapes, and Hollywood technical wizards created digitally enhanced video of the historic mission. Among other fixes, they removed the boom mike that dipped into the shot when Buzz Aldrin went hopping across the lunar surface.
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