National: The stock market is down this morning on news that the US added only 88,000 jobs in March, compared to 268,000 in February. Even so, the unemployment rate ticked down from 7.7% to 7.6%.

• President Obama will offer a budget that limits growth of Social Security benefits, but only if Republicans agree to tax increases.
• Hoody-wearing Mark Zuckerberg announced a new app to turn Android cell phones into a Facebook system. “Facebook Home” would replace the Android’s home and lock screens, putting Facebook “likes” and comment functions right up front. Facebook is struggling to make money from cellphone usage. See how many “Likes” they get.

World: At least 46 people died in the collapse of a half-finished building several miles outside of Mumbai, India.

• The City of Shanghai has begun a mass slaughter of birds and closed its open poultry markets to stem an outbreak of bird flu. The Chinese report 14 cases and six deaths from a strain of flu not previously seen in humans.  

#ThisMeansWar: Demonstrating the devastating potential of cyber warfare, North Korea’s official Twitter account has been hacked to show a picture of Kim Jung Un as a pig with a Mickey Mouse tattoo on his chest. Yes, the country with little food or electrical power Tweets its own praises to its 13,000 Twitter followers. One of its recent posts: “ 정의의 위업을 위해 일떠선 인민의 앞길을 막을자 이 세상에 없다”  We’re going to retweet that.

Warming: Glacial ice in the Peruvian Andes that took 1,600 years to develop has melted in just the last 25 years, according to a report published in the journal Science. Analysis of plants revealed by melting ice several years ago showed they were 4,700 years old, while plants exposed more recently are 6,300 years old.

Passing: Only two days after announcing his cancer had returned, Chicago Sun Times Film critic Roger Ebert died at age 70. He was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize. Ebert, together with his late television partner Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune, turned movie criticism into popular entertainment with their thumbs up/thumbs down ratings. They squabbled like a married couple and made it fun. Ebert was diagnosed with cancer in 2002 and lost his lower jaw to surgery. He used to say he wasn’t a critic of the movies, he was a fan.

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