Hawking and Hertog proposed a theory of top-down approach which allows for the existence of a multitude of different types of universes as well as our own. These would have disappeared after the Big Bang to leave our own.

not for purchase, but they look sweet

new cartoon pilot by mike mignolia (hellboy) offerred by scifi. viewable pilot is available

in reference to Amazon's Mechanical Turk program where anyone ca sign up and organize things for Amazon.

"This article explains and demonstrates a conceptual flaw in digg’s service model that causes biased (or rigged) as well as lowest-common-denominator hype to be generated, causing a dumbing down of society (as a crowd)."

arguing that digg and slashdot are too different to be "in a war"