A new planet! When will it stop?

First, they tell us the Earth is round. Then the Earth is not the centre of the universe. Then there are planets beyond the original Galilean six. Then they find something like Quaoar orbiting beyond Pluto and decide that it is a "trans-Neptunian object" and not a planet. And now they find a new larger ice ball and name it after a fingerless patrifagial Inuit goddess badly in need of tonsurial care - is Sedna planet or not? Who decides?

Blood in the library

Canada's libraries are a haven of cultural memory and quiet study. They are also a good place for the homicidal trio that dogs your footsteps to pin you down and attempt murder by the blade. A student was knifed multiple times in the University of Alberta's science and technology library on March 10th.. This is a surreal event to take place at my alma mater, but I wanted to take this opportunity to remind all library users to practice safe studying - do not tell anyone where you plan to be studying in the library, and do not study at the same carrel twice.

Wikipedia - wikipedia

Last night I was awoken with a start in the middle of the night by an unanswered question, what happens if you look up "wikipedia" in Wikipedia? Finally, once all hope of returning to sleep was lost, I had to crawl out of bed and find out. Wikipedia is a wiki-based free content encyclopedia which includes almanac-like and gazetteer-like information. Free means free to use, free to edit, and free to copy and redistribute. Wikipedia is multilingual, and an open-content, collaboratively developed creation, managed and operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. As of March 2004, it contains over 220,000 articles in English, and over 290,000 articles in other languages.