the buzz log
Amanda Knox, Cheap Trick, District 9: What's the Buzz
By Claudine Zap
Tue, July 07, 2009, 10:48 am PDT
Our top picks from the day's hottest searches.
- Amanda Knox (Searches increased by 13,843%). The former study-abroad student, on trial in Italy for murder, spent a second birthday in jail.
- Cheap Trick (+284%). Taking its name to heart, the band put out its latest album on old-school eight track.
- Al Franken (+285%). No joke: The ex-comedian is now a congressman.
- Solar eclipse (+263%). In Sri Lanka on July 22, there will be a partial solar eclipse. A total eclipse will be seen from a number of countries on the same day.
- District 9 (+144%). The latest movie produced by Peter Jackson about an alien invasion isn't out for another month. But a video that warns of the aliens on earth has gone viral.
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