Shanghai is getting a public toilet upgrade before the World Expo. — Shanghaiist Former lawmakers are having trouble finding jobs, just like everyone else. — Wonkette Captain Sully explains how he landed the plane in the Hudson to Congress, also mentions that his pay has been cut 40 percent in recent years. — Huffington Post Senator Schumer says the stimulus bill doesn't allow governors Read more

Iran plans to install 6,000 nuclear centrifuges. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the news today — Iran's "National Day of Nuclear Technology." Today, state television plays patriotic music, and Iranian children chant "nuclear energy is our natural right" in honor of the national holiday. I wasn't exactly sure what a centrifuge does, but it sounded serious so I checked into it. OK, Read more

Jake Gyllenhaal has signed on to play Joe Namath in a biopic of the star quarterback, Zap2it reports. John Cusack and Gong Li will topline the historical drama Shanghai, teaming up with 1408 director Mikael Hafstrom, writes ComingSoon. Josh Groban's holiday album topped the charts this week, Billboard reports, while Jordin Sparks' debut had the lowest sales numbers for any American Idol Read more

Trendy Shanghai restaurants are serving French fries and other foods made with purple mutant space potatoes. Yes, that's right. These purple spuds are grown from seeds that have boldly gone where no spud has gone before. They were grown from seeds "mutated" by cosmic radiation aboard a Chinese spacecraft. Apparently they are all the rage in Shanghai. Slightly sweet and purple in color, they Read more

When I was a kid, I used to think it would be cool to be an astronaut. Then I learned all the requirements and realized, who am I kidding? I'm too lazy for all of that. So unless cheap space travel becomes a thing of the now, I won't be orbiting the globe anytime soon. And since I won't be circling around the planet, it looks like I'm going to have to settle for food that has instead. Last year Read more