Alec Baldwin Apologizes, Calls Flying "A Greyhound Bus Experience" (Ozarks First)
(Alec Baldwin is apologizing to his fellow passengers for his headline-grabbing encounter with an American Airlines flight crew on Tuesday, although it doesn't appear he'll be flying the airline again anytime soon. In a lengthy missive posted on "The Huffington Post," the "30 Rock" star bids farewell to "Common Sense, Style, and Service on American Airlines" while revisiting the incident that led to his removal from a carrier in Los Angeles.)
Wake up, wake up! Boy, 17, averts disaster after school bus driver falls asleep at the wheel (Daily Mail)
(A teenager saved fellow students from disaster after leaping into action to rouse a school bus driver who dozed off at the wheel. Emmanuel Williams, 17, is seen on CCTV noticing the driver acting strangely and that the bus was in danger. He them jumped from his seat and woke up the sleeping man behind the wheel as the bus started swerving.)
Police seek 'Chewbacca' gunman (UPI)
(Police in Florida said they are searching for a man who wore a Chewbacca mask when he and a pair of young men were involved in a shooting. West Palm Beach Police said they responded to a report of a shooting Nov. 30 and a woman who witnessed the incident said the Chewbacca-masked shooter was driving a car with two men, later identified as Jodeci Lamar Window, 19, and Mario Johnson, 21, when they pulled up to a home and began shooting at Kyle Roney, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Thursday.)
'Witch's Cottage' And Mummified Cat Unearthed (Daily Mail)
(The site, described by one archaeologist as "Lancashire’s Pompeii", was discovered during a construction project. Water engineers found the 17th-century cottage during excavations near the Lower Black Moss reservoir in Pendle and now experts think it could be connected to the famous Pendle Witches, especially as a mummified cat was found sealed into one of the walls. It is thought the cat may have been entombed in the wall while still alive, possibly in the 19th century, as paranormal protection.)
New species of dinosaur discovered in museum basement (Yahoo)
(Paleontologists are used to digging deep for dinosaur remains--but to turn up a newly discovered dinosaur species, they had to dig no deeper than the basement of a London museum. London's Natural History Museum is a place of constant discovery--for school field trips and science buffs. But this particular discovery, officially known as Spinops sternbergorum, took place in a storage area in the museum's basement.)
Students offered free booze if they give blood (The Mirror)
(A DRINKS firm bribed students to give blood in return for free alcohol. Cash-strapped teenagers flocked to donate to get their free Turbo 4% strength shandy. The students had to register online and then turn up at the temporary bloodbank in Armley, Leeds, to give blood and qualify for the booze.)
Principal forced out over 9-year-old's 'sexual harassment' suspension (MSNBC)
(The principal who accused a 9-year-old North Carolina boy of sexual harassment for allegedly calling a teacher "cute" has been forced to retire. The story of Emanyea Lockett's suspension last week, first reported by WSOC-TV of Charlotte, N.C., created a national controversy. Tuesday, the Gaston County School District apologized to the family and said there was no sexual harassment.)
Cowboys round up 'ninja cow' (OMAHA)
(Plattsmouth's long ninja nightmare came to a close Wednesday afternoon when a cow that had been roaming its streets since mid-September was finally corralled. Police Chief Steve Rathman said the animal — dubbed the ninja cow because it grazed on lush city lawns at night and then vanished when people approached — was captured about 1 p.m. on the north side of town. Terry Grell of Louisville, Neb., Neil Johnson of Nehawka, Neb., and Gregg Eisenbarth of Plattsmouth caught the cow on horseback.)
Parents take teachers hostage in French school (The Local)
(A group of parents have a taken a school headmistress and several teachers hostage in the town of Berre l’Etang in the south of France. The parents want one of the teachers fired. "We are very worried that the pupils are falling behind in school. We think our children are in danger. That’s why we have decided to hold the headmistress and a couple of teachers hostage. We want things to change," said Christophe Planes, one of the parents, daily Le Figaro reports.)
Man Dies From 20-Year-Old Shooting (WBAL TV)
(Baltimore police have a new unsolved slaying on their hands, even though the victim was shot nearly 20 years ago. In August 1992, then-16-year-old Ronald Watkins was shot while standing in a crowd of people at North Avenue and North Charles Street. While he survived the shooting, medical examiners said his aorta slowly deteriorated, leading to his death from internal bleeding in July of this year.)
Jason Mewes isn't the motormouth he plays in the movies, but he's got stories to tell (Winnipeg Free Press)
(JAY and Silent Bob are hitting the road again with their podcast-inspired comedy tour, but for Jason Mewes, the Canadian leg of their travelling roadshow also feels a bit like a homecoming. Mewes, a longtime friend and onscreen sidekick to indie filmmaker Kevin Smith in such big-screen features as Clerks, Mallrats and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, developed a definite affection for Winnipeg while shooting the first two seasons of the Gemini Award-winning series Todd & the Book of Pure Evil.)
Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith yuk it up over their long-time offscreen friendship in touring show Jay & Silent Bob Get Old (Uptown Mag)
("When I was younger, that character was me," declares gravel-voiced Jason Mewes of the character he made famous in 1993 indie comedy Clerks. By contrast, director Kevin Smith — who played Jay’s eternal sidekick Silent Bob — "actually talks and stuff." Still, the title of the real-life friends’ present tour, Jay & Silent Bob Get Old, which hits the Burton Cummings Theatre on Dec. 11, remains appropriate.)
Jay and Silent Bob Get Old (WA Today)
(Due to popular demand, comic duo Jay and Silent Bob have added a Perth show to their recently announced Australian tour. Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes who play the fictional characters of Jay and Bob, will take to the stage with their new show Jay & Silent Bob Get Old at the Astor Theatre on April 18. The hilarious new show is an honest insight into what happens when two people grow up together in the Hollywood limelight, mirroring the duos journey after coming into the spotlight in the 90s.)
Jay and Silent Bob Australian Tour 2012 – Perth and New Sydney Shows (Music Feeds)
(Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith aka. Jay and Silent Bob, have added two extra shows to their upcoming Australian tour in April next year. A show has been added in Perth, at the Astor Theatre, and as well as a second Sydney show at the Enmore Theatre, which has come from the overwhelming demand for tickets. Long time friends Mewes and Smith quickly became much-loved stoner icons after the release of the cult-classic film Clerks in 1994. Their mischievous characters have gone on to pop up in other classic nineties/naughties movies such as Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Clerks 2, all of which were written and directed by Smith.)
Everyone gets old, even Jay and Silent Bob (News 1130)
(From roles in movies like "Clerks" and "Mallrats" to the depths of drug addiction, Jason Mewes has certainly seen his share of highs and lows. He and director Kevin Smith are in Vancouver tonight as part of their "Jay and Silent Bob Get Old" spoken word tour, which also hits Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, and Halifax this month. The trek is named after their popular podcast and promises more of the in-your-face honesty Mewes' online audience has come to know and love.)
Batman's Joker creator Jerry Robinson dies, aged 89 (Digital Spy)
(Robinson is best known for his influential DC Comics work during the Golden Age, playing an instrumental part in the creation of Robin, the Joker, Alfred and Two-Face. The news that the illustrator had died in his sleep was broken by Batman movie producer Michael Uslan, who announced his passing via Facebook. It was later confirmed by The LA Times. In addition to his DC contributions, Robinson was a celebrated comics historian and creators' rights activist. He was a crucial support for Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in their long-running battle to secure the rights to the property.)
Extra dies on 'Batman' set (Canoe)
(Tragedy struck the set of Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises in New York when an extra died during a break from filming. The unnamed man was involved in a shoot near Wall Street last month when he suffered a heart attack. He was rushed to hospital but later pronounced dead.)
Gary Oldman: More 'Batman' Movies Possible, But Not For Him (MTV)
("The Dark Knight Rises" is the conclusion to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, but is there a chance that Nolan might eventually return to Gotham City? In a new interview with Gary Oldman, the "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" actor spoke about the possibility of future Batman movies and the level of involvement we might be able to expect from him and Nolan. "For us I think it's the end. Whether they will make more, my guess is probably," he told Crave Online. "I mean, they don't have 'Potter' anymore.)
The Boy Who Loved Batman: A Memoir (Daemons Books)
(What kid hasn’t dreamed about bringing Batman to life? Even the non comic book reading children know who the iconic Dark Knight is, and I’d wager you’d be hard pressed to find a child who, hadn’t (at some point) pretended to be the Caped Crusader saving Gotham from the Joker. While this is a childhood dream, how many adults can step up and say they actually achieved it? In The Boy Who Loved Batman: A Memoir, Michael Uslan does just that.)
"Batman" and company rob Pasadena liquor store (Passadena Star News)
(The Dark Knight has turned to the dark side. A culprit wearing a plastic Batman mask along with three other masked accomplices robbed a liquor store of cash, cigarettes and lottery tickets Wednesday night. Pasadena police Lt. Pete Hettema said two of the suspects were seen with guns during the takeover robbery at Sunshine Liquor, 3360 E. Colorado Blvd. Officers later caught the alleged getaway driver and recovered the car used in the robbery. But the other suspects got away.)
Mercury UFO: NASA Spacecraft Photographs Strange Glowing Object (Huffington Post)
(A NASA spacecraft has captured the image of a huge "cloaked" alien ship near the planet Mercury. Unless, of course, it didn't. On Dec. 1, NASA's Heliospheric Imager-1 telescope photographed a huge coronal mass ejection (CME) streaming from the sun. But ever-observant, keen-eyed ET hunters claim that the short video also reveals a previously hidden or cloaked giant spaceship. Probably not, says a scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.)
There may be 500,000 Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone (Yahoo)
(Yesterday's announced discovery of Earth-like planet Kepler-22b brought with it renewed speculation over the possibility of life on other worlds. And while the news was exciting, there's growing evidence that it's only a drop in the bucket when it comes to finding habitable worlds in our cosmic neighborhood. Space.com has provided a handy guide to some of the 700 planets discovered by the Kepler telescope outside of our solar system.)
Why aren't we smarter already? Evolutionary limits on cognition (Medical XPress)
(We put a lot of energy into improving our memory, intelligence, and attention. There are even drugs that make us sharper, such as Ritalin and caffeine. But maybe smarter isn’t really all that better. A new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, warns that there are limits on how smart humans can get, and any increases in thinking ability are likely to come with problems.)
Yawns more contagious among friends (MSNBC)
(Next time you catch yourself yawning, look around: Did anyone close to you let out his or her own sleepy "ahhh"? Turns out, close friends and family are more likely than acquaintances or strangers to catch someone's yawns, a new study finds. The researchers suggest this yawning contagion is, in part, the result of empathy, in which we can attempt to see things from another person's angle and respond to that person's emotions.)
Nintendo’s Miyamoto Stepping Down, Working on Smaller Games (Wired)
(The creator of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda will step down from his current position at Nintendo but remain with the company to work on smaller, more personal projects, Wired.com has learned. In an exclusive interview with Wired.com on Wednesday, the 59-year-old head of Nintendo’s game design department said that he will move away from supervising the development of massive games like this year’s Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Super Mario 3D Land, passing the torch to the younger designers in the company and working on projects that won’t take as long to complete.)
Behold, the Windows Store Cometh (Tech News World)
(Microsoft released more details about the application store that will arrive with its next operating system, Windows 8. "This is a curated site, the authors will be validated, and the software will go through an approval process similar to Apple's but with better tracking and less opportunity for rejection for content," said analyst Rob Enderle.)
Should Nuns Take the Pill to Prevent Cancer? (Time)
(If there's one group of women who shouldn't need to worry about birth control, it's Catholic nuns, who have taken a vow of chastity to better serve the Church. But now researchers in Australia argue that these very women could benefit greatly from being on the pill, not for contraception, but for reasons of health. Kara Britt at Monash University and Roger Short of the University of Melbourne, writing in the journal Lancet, argue that the scientific evidence is strong enough to consider whether nuns, who do not bear children — a lifestyle that puts them at higher risk of certain reproductive cancers — could be protected by taking the birth control pill.)
10 Celebrities Who Have Been Kicked Off Planes (Time)
(Alec Baldwin was forced to leave an American Airlines flight for playing Words with Friends. But he's by far the first celeb to clash with a flight crew.)
Fewer Teenagers Have Driver’s Licenses … Because of Gas Prices and the Internet? (Time)
(The number of teen drivers has dramatically decreased over the past couple of decades. In 1983, 69% of all 17-year-olds had driver’s licenses. By 2008, only half of 17-year-olds had licenses. What’s behind the big drop? Researchers hypothesize that the rise of the Internet, text messaging, and other technology has made it easier for teens to connect with each other and socialize without the need of a car.)
Virginia Tech identifies police officer murdered in campus shooting (WDBJ 7)
(Here is NEWS7 reporter Karen Kiley's recap of Thursday's events. In the middle of the day, in front of dozens of witnesses, a Virginia Tech Police officer was gunned down Thursday in the Coliseum Parking lot on the school's campus. "When the other officers started yelling his name, to get him to wake up, or to gain consciousness, that's what really hit me," said Virginia Tech freshman Juliet Fielding.)
DB Cooper case 'solved': FBI tells niece of skyjacking suspect they are ready to close one of America's biggest mysteries after 'matching' fingerprint (Daily Mail)
(The Northwest Airlines notorious skyjacking saga that has baffled authorities for 40 years may have finally been solved. An Oregon woman who claims her uncle was the elusive criminal known only as DB Cooper says she has been told by the FBI that her evidence is enough for them to close the file on the case. Burdened by guilt over her knowledge surrounding the case, Marla Cooper came forward earlier this year, claiming she had a 40-year-old family secret protecting her uncle, a man named Lynn Doyle Cooper.)
Attorney: Sandusky posts bail following arrest (CNN)
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