News Bits!
- Oh no. Ohio. Again.
- In Tokyo, people pay to hang out in houses filled with cats. (Real cats, not Sanrio ones.)
- A crooked sports agent (think Jerry Maguire, before he met the girl with the annoying kid) is charged with smuggling potential Cuban ballplayers into the US on go-fast boats. (It's an interesting story, but mostly we just wanted to have the chance to drop "go-fast boats" into a sentence. Try it! Addictive.)
- Gmail , that relentless colonizer, comes to cell phones.
- Kazahkstanis won't get to see Borat in the theatre. Neither will we, this weekend— so that's one thing we all have in common.
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