(Posted by Richard Galliano) - Every year, the Library of Congress designates 25 sound recordings "cultural and historic treasures" and it preserves the best available copy for future generations. This year's choices, announced Wednesday, include an 1888 hand-cranked recording of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"; Prince's "Purple rain," "A Charlie Brown Christmas"; and one that caught our ears.

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(Posted by Richard Galliano) - How's this for a reminder? Just in case anyone had forgotten (and really, who did?) that Keeping Up With the Kardashians was back for whole new season last night, Kim Kardashian took it upon herself to post the above pic to her blog of her and sisters Kourtney Kardashian and Khloé Kardashian Odom in some skimpy lingerie as a way of promoting the program.

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(Posted by Benedetta Torrini) - The Cannes film festival is buzzing this year with a string of hit movies in the official lineup, a procession of stars on the red carpet and plenty of eagerly awaited titles still to come. The unseasonably cold, wet weather has done little to dampen spirits among the famously picky critics and journalists on the French Riviera to interview, photograph and film everyone from A-list celebrities to obscure auteur directors.

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(Posted by Richard Galliano) - Recent photos have hit of an apparent sample of the Supreme 94's, a collaboration from Supreme and Nike SB. We're not sure if these will actually make their way into production. From what we've heard, supreme didn't like how the 94's turned out (makes sense since they allowed you to buy all 4 colorways in the same cart, they didn't allow that for the trainer 1s).

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(Posted by Richard Galliano) - It took no less than a live camel strolling the promenade in Cannes to steal the show on the film festival's opening day, a feat that comedian Sacha Baron Cohen pulled off with chutzpah on Wednesday.

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(Posted by Richard Galliano) - The periodic table is a fixture on the chemistry-lab wall. Every schoolchild should know its crenellated shape, and be able to recite the top line, at least: hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium...But how many of us have given much thought to the essential importance of the 94 elements that occur in nature?

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