Typecasting: "The Use (and Misuse) of Period Typography in Movies"

Compare Million Dollar Homes Across the Country: "What would you do with $1 million? Invest it in the stock market? Too risky. Travel around the world? Too exhausting. Buy the home of your dreams? Now that's tempting. Whether you prefer an estate with a panoramic ocean view or a plantation house nestled in several wooded acres, here's the best thing about the pricey places we've gathered for you: Browsing here isn't going to cost you a cent." from Business-Opportunities.biz

Solar Eclipse June 10 over North America: "For most locations within the western and mountain time zones, the entire eclipse will be visible from start-to-finish, beginning in late afternoon. In central and eastern time zones, however, it will be interrupted by sunset. Some residents along the Eastern Seaboard will miss out entirely, since the Sun will set before the eclipse gets underway."

2010 moon mission for China: "China says it plans to launch its first mission to the moon in 2010 and to establish a base there as part of its burgeoning space program."

Farmer will see his barns and silos go under when Haralson County, Georgia reservoir is built: "Heatherington's home and the 429 acres where he and his wife, Frankie, live is one of a dozen homes in the path of a 2,300-acre reservoir that will provide water to four west Georgia counties on the fringe of metro Atlanta."

Weather extremes push spring aside: "Record low temperatures swept across 23 states Sunday in a late-spring blast of cold that is expected to continue across the eastern two-thirds of the nation this week."

Wildlife Drought (Audio Segment from NPR): "The worst drought to hit Arizona in decades is so bad that wildlife are having trouble finding enough water. A volunteer group in northern Arizona is setting up water tanks across the desert to help the animals survive until monsoon season in July."

Google to feature Dilbert sketches: "All this week, Google, the Mountain View search engine, will feature sketches of cartoon hero Dilbert on its homepage at www.google.com." Archives are here.

India Swelters in Deadly Heat Wave: "India baked in a heat wave Friday so intense that mud huts became as hot as ovens and birds in trees dropped dead, villagers said. This month's heat has killed 638 people nationwide. In Andhra Pradesh state, 622 people died. Temperatures there reached a record 124 degrees..."

The Case for the Empire: "Everything you think you know about Star Wars is wrong."