Clearing the Cache: Movie Night

Nancy Scola | March 12, 2010 - 5:33pm | 3 comments | Email This!

Credit: The White House

Nope, that's not Wall-E in the front row of the White House theater, sitting between Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, as we first thought. Through the miracle that is the "original size" feature on Flickr, you can zoom in and see that it's actually some kind of a purse. Probably Spielberg's.
As part of Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" campaign, the White House is running an Apps for Healthy Kids competition that offers up $40,000 in prize money for "innovative, fun and engaging tools and games that encourage children directly or through their parents to make more nutritious food choices and be more physically active." The contest seems to bring together some of the Obamas favorite things: vegetables and open government; they want developers to make use of the USDA's nutrition data that it recently released through Data.gov.
The federal highway folks have was seems to be a new zoomy-in map of federal highway projects.
And Ben Smith's "Remainders" end-of-the-day link post (which, we freely admit, inspired our "Clearing the Cache" regular feature) figures into a plot line on the rather enjoyable new CBS drama The Good Wife. What a world!

Comments

It's not a purse

by Theo1079 on March 17, 2010 - 5:00pm

It is, however, a standard issue medium sized bag of movie popcorn.

Aye, at first glance it looks

by rnbguru on March 20, 2010 - 11:39am

Aye, at first glance it looks like a purse up there, but the coloring just fits too perfectly with most movie popcorn bags.

I think it's real cool though that the Obama's are putting prize money up to motivate people to live healthy.

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I would have to agree it looks like a medium size popcorn bag you see at all the movie theaters nowadays and not a purse, but hey it could even be a seat holder although popcorn is not free cams nowadays and cost a pretty penny lol!