Cheers! Drinking with friends good for you

• Gaming
• The Ten Best RPG Characters in Film, TV and Literature  This would make a good meme.  Jayne's in his list.
• Just For Fun
• Great expectations?  That's right, a Charles Dickens themed amusement park.
• West rises in China's back yard  An article about how the latest building trend in Chinese suburbs is modeling them after Western cities.
• Movies
• JJ Abrams Confirmed to Direct Star Trek
• Paramount Officially Announces Trek XI for Christmas 2008
• Serenity named top sci-fi movie
• Time For the Earth to Stand Still Again
• Science
• Big Bang at the atomic lab after scienctists get their maths wrong
• Compare this to: Timeline for particle collider in doubt  Notice anything different about the European and American stories?
• Results from Fermilab expirement resolve long-standing neutrino question
• Society
• Wiccan symbols okay for soldier's graves  Follow up to an article I previously linked.

• Education
• Cursive writing rapidly becomes passe
  I found the this interesting, as both a representative for our county is quoted, and my son has taken it upon himself to learn cursive (he's in first grade, and I have no idea what sparked him to do this, but reading this article I am glad that he has).
• Gaming
• Burger King orders up Xbox games
  So while McD's is focusing on healthy food choices and excercise for kids, BK has gone with video games that teach kids how to stalk. wtf?
• Just for Fun
• Top Ten Geek Wallets
  Each of these are interesting, though I don't think I would want to actually carry any of them.
• Linguistics
• FBI agents still lacking Arabic skills
  Only 33 with limited proficiency, that is all they have.  (Also they need Urdu and Farsi speakers.)
• Science
• BECs confound at higher temperatures
  This is mainly for me, I'm not sure anyone else would be interested (though it's very cool!).
• Physicits observe subatomic quick-change artist
  Ditto my comment above.
• Scientists teleport two different objects
  Now this you should look at. Teleporting a macroscopic atomic object over half a meter, while converting between light and matter! Awesome!

• Gaming
  
  40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted
  See, I posted this entry, which is not related to playing WoW in any way, so I can't be addicted!  Anybody have any Visine?
  
• Just for Fun
  
  • The most expensive comma ever
    An amusing story taken from moony, who got it in turn from Neil Gaiman.
    
• Movies
  
  • Lucas approves 20-minute ‘Star Wars’
    Britain's Reduced Shakespeare Company has gotten permission to produce and record a 20-minute version of the entire Star Wars saga.
    
• Politics
  
  • Congress Considers Warning Labels for Web Sites
    This is an audio article.  What do you think, good or bad idea?
    
  • The End of the Right?
    Wouldn't that be fantastic!
    
• Science
  
  • Another New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings?
    This article is about how radar technology may have discovered a new tomb, and may be the wave of archeology's future.
    
  • Baby brains are hard-wired for math
    Extremely interesting the way they did the expirements.