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Videogum has paid tribute to all of the children, kittens and foulmouthed TV news anchors who have made 2009 so memorable for Internet addicts. Without further ado, we thank you: Creepy man smoking and singing Carmina Burana in the shower; Guy who paints his face like a California raisin; Cat massage instructor (remember, "petting is just randomly petting"); bad Californian public speaker; dancing babies; more dancing babies; "Kittens inspired by Kittens;" David After Dentist - and of course, Keyboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year in Viral Videos | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

...missile more head-on than from the side, that increases the challenges," Army Lieut. General Patrick O'Reilly, the U.S. missile-defense chief, told a defense gathering sponsored by Reuters on Monday. The test is expected to send an interceptor missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at a fake Iranian missile, fired from the Marshall Islands. (Read "A Brief History of Missile Defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pentagon Prepares for a Missile Attack from 'Iran' | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

...Nature: an international team led by Harvard astronomer David Charbonneau has spotted a "super-Earth," a planet 2.7 times bigger than Earth, circling a dim red star called GJ 1214, just 40 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. "It's spectacular," says Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, who is the world's most prolific planet hunter and is credited with discovering 70 of the first 100 exoplanets. "It's a top-of-the-top discovery in the quest for Earth-size planets." (See the top 50 space moments since Sputnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super-Earth: Astronomers Find a Watery New Planet | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

Roberts was finally called to meet his alleged maker this week, more than two decades after that melodramatic appeal. He was 91 and died after complications from a fall in his home in California, where he lived in retirement. In the interim, the faith-healing evangelist saw his once enormous religious empire crumble and his son Richard resign as head of ORU in 2007 after allegations of financial malfeasance - a scandal that reportedly left the school with more than $50 million in debt. (Another son, Ronald, committed suicide amid drug rehabilitation in 1982.) (Read "Oral Roberts to the Rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of a Faith Healer: Oral Roberts | 12/15/2009 | See Source »

...Read "California's Plan to Keep the Water Running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is California Sold on Governor Meg Whitman? | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

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