From NYTimes.com: It’s unwise to be sniffy about popular culture.

From Gawker.com: An Indonesian biopic called Little Obama depicts Barack Obama‘s youth in Jakarta, when he was a ping-pong wizard and rode motorcycles around town with flamboyant Asian men. Here’s an adorable (and only slightly weird) preview from Little Obama‘s set.

Never mind that he and Benjamin Banneker were, at one point, engaged in a debate by letter about whether or not Negroes were intellectually equal to white men.

Our friends at the White House Flickr posted all-new, behind-the-scenes photos from the State Dinner. Check out the decor, the dinner discussions and the president’s dancing face.

LOS ANGELES — The tan Armani suit, white shirt and gold tie that O.J. Simpson wore on the day he was acquitted of murder have been acquired by the Newseum in Washington, D.C., for a display exhibit on the “trial of the century”, the curator of the museum of news said Tuesday.