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While I'm distinctly lukewarm on James Cameron's movies these days, his extracurricular science-based activities- such as, say a 7-mile solo submersible dive to the bottom of the Marianas Trench- are awesome.

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Paper HIV/malaria tests in the works- for less than 10 cents each.

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The legal battle between Warner Bros. and the estates of Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster over the copyright to the Man of Steel has been raging for more than a decade, and the bad blood behind it has been boiling for much, much longer. It often looks like there's no end in sight for this clash, but now Warner Bros. is taking steps to win the fight, once and for all. (If memory serves, it was artist Shuster, who, in his later years, worked as a messenger. Supposedly, he once delivered a package to the DC offices; one imagines him looking around at memorabilia of his billion-dollar brainchild (for which he and writer Siegel received $130, which they split). As the story goes, someone at the office recognized him, awkwardly handed him a $20 tip- then allegedly called the messenger company and asked them not to send that messenger to the offices anymore.)

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And then my heart knew fear: Doctor Who's 25 silliest moments.

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This will probably mean nothing to 99% of you- but the movie Xanadu, which co-stars Michael beck 9along with Olivia Newton-John, of course) was scored by Barry de Vorzon. De Vorzon's best-known work as a composer is almost certainly the gang movie The Warriors- starring, yes, Michael Beck. This amused me in 1982, and it amuses me now :)