Risks of the space character in Unix filenames: Diomidis Spinellis explains the root cause behind Apple's iTunes bug that wiped hard drives.
Dogbert Airlines: "Attention travelers! Our hub at the South Pole is experiencing permafrost..."
COPA (son of CDA) is in front of the Supreme Court after being blocked in a federal appeals court.
Clonaid, the cloning lab founded by the leader of Raelians and now run by one of it's bishops, claims it has cloned human embryos. presumably in their offshore laboratory.
A team led by David Charbonneau is publishing results in The Astrophysical Journal on their detection of an atmosphere around an extrasolar planet for the first time. They used the Hubble Space Telescope to examine light from its sun filtered through the atmosphere to study its composition. Members of the team discovered the planet around the sun-like star HD 209458 using the STARE telescope in 1999. [via BBC News (story)]
Notes on seeing the first LOTR movie from Gandalf himself (Ian McKellen). [via linkfilter]
