It was a strange week. The first item that jumped out at me was the headline on The Register's news item: Hawking: Leave Earth or die! At first, I thought someone was threatening him, but then I saw it was a warning from Hawking.

I don't know about you, but I'm not packing just yet.

And this, from the Canada Free Press, in response to Al Gore's version of Scary Movie, Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe. Short version: they did not say, "Good movie, Mr. Vice President."