My first POV-Ray toy is finally close to what I had in mind:

In a paper submitted to Physical Review Letters, Pawel Mazur and Emil Mottola are proposing an alternative to black holes: gravastars.

The ACLU has sent recommendations on military tribunals to Rumsfeld.

The Long and Hidden History of the U.S. in Somalia

AOL Time Warner Red Hat? I think I'm going to be sick.

China claims to have found satellite controlled bugs in the new Boeing 767 intended to be President Jiang's plane.

The National Academy of Sciences has issued a report (html, pdf, hardcopy) recommending that therapeutic cloning be allowed to continue but calling for a five year ban on human reproductive cloning because work with animals has not progressed far enough.