Neutrinos are traveling faster than light!

NASA scientists, already puzzled by the appearance of regularly-shaped, yellowish 'bricks' laid out across the surface of Mars, were further bewildered by a new image captured by Opportunity's camera. Some analysts who have viewed the image claim that it shows four apparently humanoid figures, walking along the 'road'…

Presumably this is the kind of amusement park where the "amusement" is for the onlookers, rather than anyone foolish enough to climb into this deathtrap.

In the book "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human", the author argues that the increased accessibility of energy resulting from cooking food enabled us (a) not to spend our whole day gathering food, and (b) divert energy from the digestive system to the brain. Should we really call ourselves 'homo coquens'?

Prolonged solitary confinement is supposed to drive people insane in fairly short order (see [www.nytimes.com] for a description of what it feels like). Being in a persistent vegetative or 'locked-in' state sounds as if it would be worse even than solitary confinement, because you can't even distract yourself by…

It's like Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion animation and the Wachowski Brothers' 'bullet time' had a child that went to live in a coal mine full of back-up dancers from late '70s disco videos. If that was the effect Singh was aiming for, it's a stunning success.

"Hell Squatting Peak" looks a bit like some of the 'stress positions' much beloved of "we don't torture people" militaries around the world. No word yet on whether there are also flaming cattle or rains of needles in some of our 'black' prisons.

Optimist. It's "Big Momma's House 15" you should be worried about.

First it was "leaves on the line". Then it was "the wrong kind of snow". Now it's lions. The Creative Excuses Department at network rail is really pulling out all the stops.

My guess would be that this was written by someone who had just spent an eight-hour transatlantic flight seated in the 'Unaccompanied infants' section of Economy class. Call it 'wish fulfillment'.

It's gorgeous, but they're risking a heavy prison sentence for Voiceover Abuse in the First Degree.

"Whale poop - a perfume for a man, or a woman"

It's actually going to be a tense thriller in which an aging Gaff (played by Edward James Olmos) hunts down J.F. Sebastian's remaining toys: "Home again, jiggity-jig!" Zhora's snake is rumored to get a walk-on ... sorry, a slither-on ... part as well.

I'd hardly call it 'spontaneous'. After all, a lot of careful planning and thought went into choosing exactly the right model of flamethrower, testing different kinds of accelerants, calculating windage and dispersal ... Wait ... have I said too much?

Nope, that was Peru. It was pretty much the end for the Tupac Amaru movement. [en.wikipedia.org]

Wow. And I thought I was joking when I wrote: [bit.ly] (shameless self-plug). I should obviously stop writing parodies and focus my energies instead on generating sample chapters and cover letters.

And here was I thinking it was going to be something like "They haven't updated their Facebook or Twitter for a while".

Rule 34?

I was really hoping for Slutty Zombie Muammar Gaddafi. Because being topical is an important part of choosing your Halloween costume.

Male scientists have also reported that being in the presence of the right lady can also lead to mental impairment and diminished ability to perform simple intellectual tasks, so the two concepts are probably closely connected.