Fascinating conversation in this month's Seed between writer Will Self and anthropologist Spencer Wells. Wells throws out the fact that, based on DNA analysis, we now know that humans "nearly went extinct about 70,000 years ago. We dropped down to 2,000 people."

Moof! Sigh.. I really want a dogcow. Might be willing to settle for a pandog, though.

Groundhog Day is one of my favorite movies ever. It's strange that a movie that repeats the same scenes over and over is so infinitely rewatchable. According to this account, Phil relives February 2nd for at least four years. The screenwriter Danny Rubin reveals on his blog that it was actually ten years, though he likes to imagine it was 10,000.

If Osama's only 6 degrees away, why can't we find him? Aside from the fact that the last few degrees probably wouldn't be too cooperative, it turns out the research that originated the famous 6 degrees of separation concept was flawed. The theory actually doesn't hold up to close scrutiny.

One magnetic curtain, one rocking bed, add to cart.

My coworker recently introduced me to the interrobang. This has just supplanted the upside-down question mark as my favorite punctuation symbol. Alt+8253, if your font supports it. Also see the interrobang's other unpopular friends, the sarcasm mark and irony mark (zing!).