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June 06, 2012 | | OBIT Banned in the U.S. before his novel Fahrenheit 451 became a classic, the fantasy writer Ray Bradbury scorned the label of “science-fiction writer” and taught generations of kids not to listen to the grown-ups who told them daydreaming was a waste of time, writes The Daily Beast’s Malcolm Jones. ALMOST HOME A space shuttle being towed through a river is not something you see every day, even in New York. The space shuttle Enterprise made its final journey on Wednesday as it was towed through the Hudson River to its future home, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. The shuttle had been housed in a New Jersey shipyard since Sunday, after being towed across the New York harbor to Kennedy Airport. Originally scheduled for Tuesday, the trip was delayed due to inclement weather—and the shuttle sustained some minor damage on Sunday when its right wing grazed a railroad bridge. The shuttle exhibit will open in mid-July. YIKES Social networking site LinkedIn confirmed on Wednesday that some of the reportedly 6.5 million encrypted passwords said to be compromised were hacked and posted online on a Russian hacker website. LinkedIn, home to 150 million users, suggested the breach is limited to 10 percent of the professional network’s users—but that’s a huge number of people. The network had already received negative press this week with reports that its iOS app collects full meeting notes and details from a device’s calendar and sends them back to the company in plain text. QUID PRO QUO One of TV’s most respected news anchors and interviewers is now in the hot seat. In a statement Tuesday, Barbara Walters said she regrets trying to help the daughter of a former Bashar al-Assad ambassador land an internship and get into college in the U.S. Shererzad Jaafari, 21, had previously helped arrange an exclusive interview between Walters and Syria’s president last December. London’s Telegraph obtained emails exchanged between Jaafari and Walters in the aftermath of the interview, along with an email from Walters to a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism asking that he consider Jafarri as a master’s student. In the email, Walters added that she had already recommended Jaafari for an internship with CNN’s Piers Morgan. Nothing came from either opportunity. ZOMBIE SPREE Add one more to the tally of freakish incidents of cannibalism sweeping the nation: a Louisiana man named Carl Jacquneaux allegedly attacked his neighbor over a domestic issue, biting off a chunk of the neighbor’s face. The neighbor defended himself by spraying the assailant with wasp poison. Jacquneaux then held another neighbor at knife point while stealing a handgun. A friend says he knows Jacquneaux was doing bath salts, the drug associated with several of the other “zombie” crimes. | | 
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