More sad animal news - Dallas zoo gorilla hot after escaping.

Four weeks ago, "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau announced in his cartoon strip the "Bush Guard Service" contest: "We're offering $10,000 cash to any witness who can definitively corroborate Mr. Bush's claim" that three decades before he became President, he served in the Alabama National Guard. "So if you served with Mr. Bush - even if only in the officers' club - we want to hear from you right now! Why? So we can put this trash story to rest and get back to the real issues." Well, it turns out that no credible witness has come forward to claim the prize, so this week Trudeau mailed a personal check for $10,000 to the USO.

Bush's campaign gear made in Burma, a country whose goods he banned last year.

Does the future say, "MSN/AOL"?

The latest word on fish as food.

Most interesting article of today - The Economics of Faking Orgasm. "Orgasms are not infrequently associated with conversation, either before or after." This is research by a guy at UT who also wrote The Economics of Ecstasy (the feeling, not the drug).

That Al-Qaida guy the media is buzzing about right now was, according to The Guardian, captured two years ago?

Forget flash mobs, try dogging.