Hey everybody! Thanks so much for the kind words. It means a lot to me. I'll miss you all from Malibu Pines!

Our Oscar madness cannot be contained to Friday alone.

It's both--it's stop-motion in 3D, which is like awesome multiplied by delicious. At first I couldn't believe it wasn't CGI. It's stunning. 

I cut coupons and use them instead of aluminum foil.

@Anon--we've been asking ourselves the same question. I just find it amazing that a mouse in 1810 killed a penguin in 2006.

Speaking of Jack Bauer: this is amazing.

I talked to Russ Kick, who runs the awesome Memory Hole site, and I told him I thought it was weird how much the rejected ones look like political cartoons. He said that's because they ARE political cartoons. They actually appeared in newspapers and were appropriated by whoever was drafting up these leaflets.

Dear Video, Where do I send my money for my talking trash can? Thank you, Roger PS You are weird and terrific.

I do wonder what's going to happen with Rick Warren and Obama. Each guy is a threatening figure for some, and the fact that these two guys with pretty different views are talking (and possibly even listening) to each other could be a good thing. jrs-I agree Special Air Mission 28000 sounds like a space ship. Someone around here says they're going to start a band called Special Air Mission 28000. Anyway, to your other comments... Bush's stuff will be put on military planes--that's how presidential belongings get moved. As for my use of the word "re-writing," I'll concede that there might be better words to describe the work of the Bush legacy project. But it is about shaping how history tells his story, and all presidents do it. Who knows what'll happen next. Jimmy Carter left office with an approval rating in the 30s,and he's made some real positive change in the world since.

Ipecac guy made $150. Which works out to less than $10 per vomit. 

Good News is not brought to you by salt, I promise. Er, anyway, Mr.Curtis, that's terrible. I was once denied a job as an usher at a movie theatre because I didn't have any experience as an usher at a movie theatre. 

The salt makes perfect sense to me. I think. 

I had lunch with a friend today, and I told him we did a show about the pine beetle, and he said "your mountain pine beetle has nothing on the wooly adelgid." We're considering pitting them against each other in an octagonal ring. Will post video here if so.

That's cool, Olive. Also, the beetles leave behind a fungus that stains the wood blue, which some companies are beginning to market. And a couple new mills have opened in Colorado turning the dead wood into pellets for wood stoves.

Yup. The Good News Team was on assignment (hungover after New Year's and/or looking at videos of kittens on treadmills on the internet) so we ran a rebroadcast (rerun). Have no fear. We're back new and improved (well, new, anyway) tomorrow. 

@Anonymous--brilliant. It'd solve the internet problem, AND put millions of unemployed pigeons back to work. 

People without marketable skills unite!

I'm heading to Timecrimes immediately when we close the News Factory today. 

Suncaster, thanks for noticing. I was actually going to wear a sweater today, because it's chilly in the GOOD News theatre. But Daniel brought hot chocolate so it wasn't so bad. 

You're right, Nikhil: peridotite has been soaking up CO2 all along. And bringing peridotite to smokestacks isn't cost-effective. What you have to do instead is get CO2 to the peridotite. Matter and his colleagues figure that by capturing CO2,  pressurizing it in water (like making seltzer), and then boring holes into the peridotite in Oman and pouring the CO2 in, they can accelerate the natural process. If it works, it still won't be a cure to what ails us, but it'll help.