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Makemake: Dwarf Planet Bucks Naming Trends
Celestial bodies are most often named after Greek and Roman gods, but Mount Olympus only has so many residents. So what is an astronomer to do when he or she discovers something new out in the void of space? The answer lies not off the coast of the Aegean, but in the South...
Doctor Who finale watched by 9.4m
If you have not seen the current Doctor Who series and you don't want to know the ending don't read the second section of this posting ... you have been warned.Doctor Who is a British science fiction television... Google and Creator of ‘Family Guy’ Strike a Deal
Interesting development by Google. While Google's focus hear is on mainstream media, I think this confirms that there's going to be a market for distributing other content including short films and documentaries... 'Family Guy' Creator Signs $100 Millon Deal
Seth MacFarlane has signed a multi-year, massive production deal with Fox that is expected to be worth more than $100 million.Not bad for the creator of a critically-panned cartoon show that was cancelled twice,... Paddington Bear is back 50 years on
I love Paddington Bear, and I still have all the books on tape that I used to listen to as a child to help me get to sleep. It has been 50 years since Michael Bond asked people to 'please look after this bear'. To... Barbara Walters Affair with Republican Senator Edward Brooke
Barbara Walters will appear on Oprah on May 6th to chat about her new book. In her tell all she relates that she had an affair with U.S. Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts for years during the... 007 on Display: Imperial War Museum
"Do you expect me to talk?""No, Mister Bond! I expect you to go to the museum!""In just over a week it will be exactly a hundred years since the birth of Ian Fleming, wartime intelligence officer and creator of... The Case for 'Expelled'... and Intelligence
OPINIONBen Stein's Expelled: No Intelligenece Allowed is scheduled to open April 18th. I want to recommend some reading material along the same lines. Author Lee Strobel's work has been quite an inspiration for me.... Coastal Loss, Coastal Cost
This sounds like a reasonable idea.Who else agrees?The oil and gas companies should help repair what they damaged."Mr. Bill creator Walter Williams turns his camera on the oil and gas industry and asks for help... Windows XP Tiny Edition
For some of you, this may be a kind of new thing to play with, or maybe you have tried it before. Windows XP Tiny is built by carefully and unofficially removing useless components that come installed together with... Web creator rejects net tracking
"I think consumers rights in this are very important - we haven't seen the results of these systems being used" Sir Tim Berners-Lee, in response to companies which tracks web activity to create personalised advertisements.
... Dungeons & Dragons creator dies at 69
Our condolences."Milwaukee — Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69. He had...The Lost Crown: A Ghost-hunting Adventure
"Spines tingle and hairs raise as a ghostly new suspense-adventure game for the PC haunts retail shelves this week Got Game Entertainment LLC today announced that the “The Lost Crown: A Ghost-hunting Adventure” has shipped to North American retail. Created by adventure...Hundreds of Thousands of Private MySpace Photos Leaked
About 500 thousand Private My Space photos were leaked onto the dowload service Bit Torrent Wired News is reporting. The leak occurred after a Wired reported on a security hole in My Space. Following that story the...GLAAD Award Nominees Announced
It's great to see how far we've come since the days of Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom being the only mainstream television series that promintently featured gay and lesbian characters. As GLAAD Presiden Neil Giuliano notes, "This year's extraordinary nominees exemplify the...
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