If you’ve ever turned on VH1 (or at least passed by it while channel surfing to something with sharks), there’s a 200% chance that you’ve seen the network’s “I Love The … ” series, which also means that you’ve stumbled upon comedian Hal Sparks waxing nostalgic on everything from Nerf footballs to the R.

CHICAGO — As a cast of top Washington figures looked on, Rahm Emanuel was sworn in Monday as mayor of Chicago, offering praise to the longtime mayor he succeeds but mainly promising sweeping change. “New times demand new answers,” Mr.

ContributorNetwork – While the Swedish version of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” may have been snubbed by the Golden Globes, the film did manage to take home a Critics Choice award for best foreign movie in 2010. Regardless of whether the foreign film received much recognition from nominating committees and film critics, the movie based on the first book of the Millennium Trilogy still managed to become a global phenomenon that earned more than $100 million worldwide. The foreign release of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” set a record as one of the biggest foreign language films ever sold in the U.S., raking in a cool $9 million in North America alone.

It has been United Nations General Assembly week in New York. Dignitaries, leaders and advocates weave through barriers, security lines and check points from one grand forum to another to hear carefully crafted speeches on the world’s progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

AFP – European leaders stepped up demands for a global financial tax on Monday as they faced mounting calls for money to pay for the Millennium Goals battle to cut extreme poverty.

AFP – British actor Daniel Craig will star in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Hollywood’s first adaptation of one of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s record-setting Millennium Trilogy, a Sony Pictures official said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Stieg Larsson, author of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, has become the first writer to sell more than one million Kindle e-books thanks to his popular mystery Millennium Trilogy novels, online retailer Amazon.com said on Tuesday.

The novels in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy were three of the five biggest sellers of the second quarter, according to USA TODAY’s Best-Selling …

Their inventor won the Millenium Prize, but they need to be cheaper to provide large-scale power. This year’s winner of the Millennium Technology Prize, Michael Grätzel, director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, has appeared often in Technology Review for his work developing dye-sensitized solar cells (also called Grätzel cells). The solar cells can be flexible, transparent, and tinted just about any color you’d like–features that make them attractive for consumer goods and windows

Reuters – It’s hard to believe that many of this millennium’s kids still read “Marmaduke,” but the comic strip has been going strong since the early 1950s. It’s even harder to believe that Fox made a feature film based on a single-panel comic in an era where expensive fanboy fare such as “Watchmen” or “Elektra” sometimes flames out.