News of the Day 1.9.10

• Another makeup story, this time involving Neanderthals.
• The 3-D mavens are at it again, convinced that it's the next big thing in tele. Not really sure how the logistics of 3-D Super Bowl with your 30 friends and neighbors is going to fly though.
• But I will watch Lord of the Rings in 3-D!
  
• Is Rossy investigating his US options after 'quitting' the Beeb?
• What do folks splurge on when it's freezing? Shepard's pie, Snuggies, bird feeders, and Domino's Pizza.
• Ha! I generally don't support vandalism, but this defaced Cameron poster is delightful! I mean, the guy plastered his giant quasi-Cheshire mug throughout the kingdom. Someone's going to give him a mustache and horns. Just because folks don't like Gordon Brown doesn't mean they're going to love the other guy.
• The Times gauges the effect of the recession on higher degrees, and the diversification thereof.
• Gentrification of Notting Hill.
• New technology that either connects you with actual people or simply tracks your whereabouts like a parolee's electronic monitoring device.
• More from Vegas...a quick slide show of some of the tech debuting at the Consumer Electronics Show.
• Elvis really has left the building in Japan as young fans turn their back on the King.
• Medical mysteries - did a mole do in President Franklin Roosevelt?
• An autopsy of the coup that wasn't, again. The Times declares, rightly, that no one fucks up a coup quite like Labour, though they were a bit more gentile.
• If you're wondering why your sense of time is so screwy, it's not you, it's your brain.