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Blake Edwards, rest in peace.

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Bill Pullman is joining Torchwood.

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Extremely steampunkesque '20s vintage elevator technology.

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Scientists have shown they can change people's moral judgements by disrupting a specific area of the brain with magnetic pulses.

They identified a region of the brain just above and behind the right ear which appears to control morality.

And by using magnetic pulses to block cell activity they impaired volunteers' notion of right and wrong.

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Seeing bad things happen to other people is scary. One way to respond to this is to blame the victim—to look for some reason why it happened to them. But there’s another common response, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The researchers found that people who believe in justice in the world also believe that a tragedy gives the victim’s life more meaning.

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Has anyone tried Diigo or Xmarks? I've been meaning to, but with Delicious looking like it's circling the drain, this has now become a front-burner issue.

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And now for something completely different: "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor," as sung by a parrot.