The BBC is working on a new, updated version of Dr. Who. The intial return will be limited to six episodes, but there could be more. Read the full story.

A new 3-credit course at Frostburg State University delves into the "science" of Harry Potter's magic. Read the full story.

All through my high school career and a good chunk of my college one, I spent a fair amount of time questing for the soundtrack to the movie 2010. I finally got it in my sophomore year (1992), when my girlfriend at the time found it for me in a CD store up in State College, PA.

Of course, I was ecstatic, and after a quick kiss I ran back to my dorm room, where I happily through it onto my CD player ... and was horrified by an opening track that had taken all that was good and proper about 2010's excellent cinematic overtures ... and combined them with disco.

The horror was near absolute. Had great Cthulhu appeared at that moment, his tentacles writhing, his eyes shining with celestial madness, I doubt the horror could have been any greater ... and I'm pretty sure I could have thrown the CD at him and even he would have fled screaming.

Opus, the penguin hero of Bloom County, is returning to the funny pages with a new Sunday only strip simply called Opus. Read the full story.

My first review for Inside Mac Games is of a science fiction/fantasy hybrid role-playing game. Read the full story.

The Red Star is ready to rise again ... this time in the Far East. Read the full story.

The probe was crashed into Jupiter on purpose to prevent terrestrial contamination of any of the planet's icy (and possibly life-bearing) moons. It's replacement, the "Jupiter Icy Moons Orbitor, will be 100 times more powerful. Read the full story.

A game in which American patriots in an alternate reality repel Communist invaders? Oh man, I've got to get this one... Read the full story.

The Swen/Gibe virus looks to steal e-mail passwords and usernames in an effort to propigate itself. Read the full story.

This isn't really all that surprising. Seems to me it would be better to make plans for deploying a Orbital Transfer Vehicle (a sort of space bus) that could aid in astronaut retrieval from the orbiter, should it prove incapable of re-entry. Read the full story.