Most people would agree that the ten years since the September 11th terrorist attacks have been pretty shitty ones. War, disaster, and economic collapse have all seemed to come pouring out of the hole at Ground Zero as if from Pandora's box. But! Light!

Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi—under house arrest for over seven years—was freed today, five days after the country's military junta held parliamentary elections. "We must unite!" she told supporters outside her home.

The top kill method of pumping mud into the Gulf Coast oil leak has apparently worked. The pressure on the gunk geyser is very low and once it is at zero, they fill the hole with cement, the end. [LAT]

Hahahahaha. Nobody watched Monday night's premiere of The City, MTV's poop crap dump of a new reality show (and a spin-off of The Hills). Nobody!

Actually! You know what's really great? The story in this week's New York mag about the crew who works at Trader Joe's on 14th Street. "Today's crew includes a filmmaker, an actor, two fashion students, two painters, a film-production intern, and a martial artist. They're mostly college graduates—University of…