Nine hundred million for the dancing horse

That's right, Gangnam Style has hit 900,000,000 views. Now that the good news is out of the way, here's some bad news: Rupert Murdoch's awards-season soiree for Ang Lee's Life of Pi has been canceled because of the death of his mother on Tuesday. But now for some more good news: New Zealand's reputation for clean government continues to sparkle, as the country again comes out best in Transparency International's global corruption perceptions index. This makes us first equal with Denmark and Finland. This also makes eight consecutive years that New Zealand has been first or first equal on the CPI. On the same index, North Korea and Somalia are last equal again, this time with Afghanistan.