Posted by: Stephen Saban contact

Blame It on the Bossa Nova

It may have been brought on by hackers hitting a utility company's control sytems, as 60 Minutes claims, or by soot, as government officials insist, or by the celebrity overload of Madonna and her hot Brazilian boyfriend landing in Rio, as we suspect, but whatever's to blame, a massive power failure took down half the country of Brazil last night, bringing it to a sudden, dark standstill for two hours and causing "serious instability or unreachability in large portions of Brazil's telecommunications infrastructure," which is why we're still waiting to hear what happened when Mama Luz met Madge. Watch the lights come back on in the pretty video. (WaPo) 



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