Misc.

Jeff Rice of Wired has a great story on what happens at the Smithsonian Institution's Feather Identification Laboratory -- they study what kinds of birds hit flying planes. Well, mostly birds. Sometimes it's a rabbit.

Meanwhile, it's probably a good thing that the Denver Museum of Nature and Science isn't shutting this guy down. That would give him even more publicity. And when the kids grow up, they'll realize that creationism is just a nice story.

Meanwhile, some folks are wondering if Lucas et al based their Jedi library on a more terran version in Dublin. (Interesting similarities actually, even if Lord Lucas denies it, it's possible that an underlying was doing extensive research when designing it...)