Eminent news organ reports ominous new threat to science.

Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.

More information can be found here, in this helpful article from The Onion.

In an especially cruel touch, the photograph of "Reverend Gabriel Burdett" is actually one of John Sulston.

Big disks.

I'm trying to get some data off a disk that has . . . certain issues.

I've just asked Windows how big the mp3 directory is.

314PB. On a 160-gig disk.

Oh, I wish.

Still, I'm quite impressed that it knows how to count that far, and also knows the proper unit and abreviation.