It’s late. You’re up. If you missed out on the annual NYC Medieval Festival, fear not, it rained and wasn’t that awesome, just like all that homework you’re catching up on now. Take a break with the news!

Actual News

Sure fire way to an “A”: Researchers at the University of Hiroshima in Japan decided that pictures of cute baby animals aren’t just a great way to procrastinate, but actually make you focus more. Making everyone hate rats a little more.

UNimpressive: The U.N. Chief was duped by pranksters into believing that a caller was actually the Canadian Prime Minister. True to form, the actual Candian Prime Minister offered a lengthy apology and a free coupon for maple syrup.

They’ve got nothing on Butler: Here’s a whole photo album of people sleeping in libraries. No word on whether every single one of these people are Columbia grad students.

And a funny video…

If all those donation e-mails haven’t driven you insane yet, here’s some more Obama spam!