CARTOON MOUSE TO MAKE MORE THAN ZIMBABWE'S GDP "Walt Disney Co. said on Tuesday it expects retail sales of licensed merchandise to top $30 billion worldwide in fiscal 2008, helped by its popular Disney Princess and High School Musical brands. Last year, the company said its sales of licensed Disney merchandise rose to $27 billion, more than doubling from five years earlier."

It's snowing in Saudi Arabia! My father is over there doing whatever it is he does and he sent me these pictures. "The coldest winter in decades," he says.

I think it resembles Hoth, just more nonsecular: "Morning and afternoon prayers are being combined in many mosques because of the morning cold…"

The overturned vehicles are no surprise, as the Saudis drive like careless, selfish madmen, and uncharacteristically icy roads can't help a thing. But if you can ignore the twisted steel, the landscape is beautiful in a unique way.

(This isn't pop culture related, but neither is almost everything.)