January 8, 2013: Morning
- White House photographer Pete Souza releases a year of pictures with the First Family.
- Dozens of environmental and health groups urge Obama to finally and firmly address climate change.
- Forced to resign by a financial scandal, Berlusconi is running for office again, this time for finance minister, or even prime minister.
- Why did the Royal Canadian Mint make the world's purest and largest gold bullion coin? Because we can.
- Tide detergent is now called "liquid gold," with a 150-ounce bottle going for either $5 cash or $10 worth of weed or crack cocaine.
- Sexism in vintage ads.
- Gerard Depardieu performs song with Uzbekistan’s "Single Most Hated Person," who wants to be a pop star.
- How to pick a husband (according to Myers-Briggs scores) if you want to have children and also a career, or not.
- Washington journalist comes to terms with realizing that he's a creep—"someone whose isolation has become unmanageable."
- Bookriot's Jeff O'Neal handicaps this year's Tournament of Books.
- See also: Bookriot's plan to discuss all of the Tournament's books before March.
- Sony backs Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" for 24 more episodes.
- To watch an hour-long film made up of 20 three-minute trailers in Portugal, viewers must maneuver their upper bodies into "one of 16 downward-pointing nozzles."
- Analysis of seven early short films from Albert Brooks, which he produced for television in the early '70s.
- Photographs of tiny people drawn on people's fingers.
- The Millions' releases its list of anticipated fiction to be published in 2013.