She's ... um ... dancing with a ... um ... er ... yeah ... (Warning: Quicktime .MOV) Of the Top Ten Worst Jobs in Science, Ballerina for NASA only ranked 9th. But it should rank #1 for straight-out wierdness.

Aussies come home!! The Australian Government will urge all it's citizens overseas to rush home if the bird flu starts to spread amongst humans. After all Australia will be bird flu free. As the Health Minister Tony Abbott claims, to catch it "you've got to eat raw chicken meat or you've got to drink duck's blood or something that Australians just don't do." more inside

The Nürburgring Nordschleife A long description of driving the 'Ring in a Mini Cooper S. I wonder if I could fit mine in the overhead compartment so I could fly it over there instead of just pretending with GTA4.

US Passports to have RFID So says the state department. Newsfilter links. Good? Bad? Tinfoil Hat? Screwedville? We report. YOU post snarky derails. via

Your eyes fool you. So therefore you're either a fool, a fooled one, a fooly-fool or just a nice monkey with normal colorful eyes. more inside

Getting that Bay Area Meetup Feeling There were some rumblings about having another SF Bay Area meetup. We will rumble no more. This is the time. This is the place. We throw down the gauntlet to those LA monkeys, too. Come on! We dare ya! more inside

Is Bill Watterson working undercover? "A while back, our local paper started carrying a comic called Frazz by Jef Mallett. Immediately, I was struck by how much the illustration style looked like Bill Watterson’s. The main character (Frazz) looks an awful lot like a Calvin in his early twenties..."

Sulu comes out. "Takei told The Associated Press on Thursday that his new onstage role as psychologist Martin Dysart in "Equus," helped inspire him to publicly discuss his sexuality..."