Dalek Recovered

Missing Dalek found on Glastonbury Tor. While I tend to believe the facts of the article, it is the Register, so take everything else with a heap o' salt.

And on a completely different topic, this is the last day to mail in donations to the Breast Cancer 3-Day in Seattle. If you want to donate after today, you'll need to use a credit card.

Hmmm. Not enough? Ok...

Great list of Starter Comics. This reminds me a bit of the Eleven List.

Stuart Hughes reports on a fantastic idea on how to get rid of land mines in places where they are actually a danger, as opposed to places where they are just a minor nuisance.

The Avian Influenza Wiki has tons of information on what the bird flu is and why it's a danger. If you aren't scared, you aren't paying attention. Via Boing Boing.

Cell phones on airplanes can drown out radio signals from space, thus destroying SETI's chances of finding intelligent life outside our solar system.

Europe's oldest known civilization discovered. "More than 150 gigantic monuments have been located beneath the fields and cities of modern-day Germany, Austria and Slovakia. They were built 7,000 years ago, between 4800BC and 4600BC. Their discovery, revealed today by The Independent, will revolutionise the study of prehistoric Europe, where an appetite for monumental architecture was thought to have developed later than in Mesopotamia and Egypt."

DRM is stupid.

Terrifying article about what it takes to get people to be willing to commit mob murder. In short, as soon as you stop thinking of your opponents as fellow humans, you lose the moral high ground and slide into the realm of Nazis, Hutus, and other genocidal groups.