I ate too much sushi.

as Emily Flake's comic says, "I can't come in to work. I ated too much pie"

I think I need to use that tomorrow, Kat.

There is no such thing.

I would normally agree with you, but not right now. Check again in a half hour.

I think Polar Express successfully wrapped up all Cuteness Factors together and tossed them into the Uncanny Valley.

Uncanny cuteness.... Hmm... Did ET count?

Oh my! They are reporting they have found the 12 miners alive. Thank God.

That's actually amazing. And I echo Laura's thank god!

That is amazing!

Wacky fun!

Italian Case On Proving Existence of Christ Proceeds
Under the Italian Penal Code, both "abuse of popular credulity" (Sec. 661) and "impersonation"(Sec. 494) are offenses. Luigi Cascioli, who lives in Viterbo, a town north of Rome, is a retired agronomist who once studied for the priesthood but later became a militant atheist. He has written a book titled The Fable of Christ. A priest, Father Enrico Righi of Bagnoregio, denounced Cascoli in the parish newsletter for questioning Christ's historical existence. In September,2002, Cascoli responded by filing suit. The trial judge dismissed the case but the Court of Appeal held that Signor Cascioli had a reasonable case for his accusation that Father Righi was "abusing popular credulity". So yesterday the trial judge, Gaetano Mautone, set a preliminary hearing for next month. The London Times reports on the case as one in which Father Righi will be required to prove that Jesus Christ existed. It also reports, not surprisingly, that "the Vatican has so far declined to comment".

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Oh, wow. That's miraculous. Well, and skill of the rescuers, and determination, and grit, and survival skills.

I guess one of them didn't make it, which is horribly sad. For the rest, amazing. Thankful, indeed.

There were miners?

::surfs web::

That's great. I had no idea about this. Huh.

Watching BBCAmerica. I do love Trevor Eve something awful. And he looks so much better now than when I first fell for him. This time I think I paid enough attention to catch everything. But I am sad that they dropped, at least by name, the tension from the episode where Spence immediately thought Boyd had been drunk driving. I'd have liked some atonement. The guy playing Steve Hunt tonight is hot. I shall have to look him up when its done.

Also noticed a show called A Week of Dressing Dangerously. Looks interesting. I could probably do with that sort of makeover.

The house mice — believed to have made their way to Gough decades ago on sealing and whaling ships — have evolved to about three times their normal size

Can you really evolve over mere decades?

Late on this, but scientists in the lab have made these 3x size mice by altering a single gene (to do with growth hormones, I think) so it probably would require only a single mutation to do the same in the wild. Not much in the way of evolution, though, just a single gene.