mmxi:Google.com’s logo is looking a bit different today. The multicolored “Google” logo has been spiced up with fireworks and has seen a few of its letters replaced by four Roman numerals, “MMXI”, to read “GMMXIE.” Judging from the top terms that have been keyed in to Google trends, Google users seem a bit confused by [...]

pansexual uring a repeat airing of a “Dr. Phil” episode from October about the suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi, high school students discussed being bullied because of their sexualities with “Ugly Betty” star Mark Indelicato. One sixteen-year-old student interviewed identified as “pansexual,” sending people across the nation a-Googling. So what is pansexuality? Answer: Pansexuality, [...]

sarah bernhardt:Since its inauguration in 1910, the Trianon neo-classical attracted the cream of the Cafe Society, Marcel Proust, Sarah Bernhardt, Rene Lacoste tennis player, and more recently, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Achard, Sacha Guitry, Rene Clair and Michael Jackson. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor have spent their honeymoon, marriage in Versailles. It’s in the lounge [...]

earthquake in indiana WZZM) – A 3.8 magnitude earthquake hit central Indiana Thursday morning and some people in West Michigan are saying that they felt the earth move. It was enough to force Linda Oshinski out of bed in her Caledonia home. “Right around 8am, I woke up, the bed was shaking, the things on [...]

david mann:China’s yuan rose to its strongest level since the end of 1993 on speculation the central bank will permit more appreciation next year to help curb inflation. The People’s Bank of China set the reference rate at the highest level since ending a dollar peg in July 2005, after the Financial News cited a [...]

stanford women s basketball:San Francisco (Obama.net)- Most Americans would be hard pressed to remember the last time that the Connecticut Huskies women’s basketball team lost a game. For a record 90 games, the UCONN women went undefeated against every team that challenged them. The winning streak is the longest ever in Division 1 NCAA basketball. [...]

condoleezza rice:Wikileaks cables seem to have no ending with more and more revelations coming every single day, and this time it is former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice’s cable sent to American diplomats saying that the attack carried out by Israel on a Syrian target in September 2007 was in fact a nuclear reactor built [...]

tyler bray:Tennessee true freshman quarterback Tyler Bray had a big performance in the Music City Bowl but it was not enough to hold off the Tar Heels as Bray and the Volunteers lost in double overtime.  Bray finished the game with 308 yards, four touchdowns, but also three picks. Bray is the future face of [...]

armed forces bowl:The Army Black Knights (6-6) will face the Southern Methodist Mustangs (7-6) in a battle of downtrodden programs back on the rise in the Armed Forces Bowl. The game will take place at Ford Stadium in Dallas, SMU’s home, on Dec. 30 at 12 p.m. ET. It’s Army’s first bowl game in 14 [...]

zodiac killer:8 a.m., FX: Zodiac — Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Robert Graysmith, the man who penned a book about the infamous Zodiac Killer of the 1960s and ’70s. 4 p.m., NATGEO: Monster Fish of America — Zeb Hogan travels to the Pacific Northwest in search of the white sturgeon, North America’s largest freshwater fish, kicking [...]