Pretty much everything you need to know about calcium in your diet. I was interested to see that some of the possible benefits of calcium are more likely to occur with lowfat dairy products than with tablets. Dairy products also seem to be more efficient than broccoli, according to the eye-catching chart. And since kids need tons of calcium starting at about age 9, I’m going to be brewing yogurt in 10 gallon drums.

Apparently Joss won’t be at DragonCon after all (there are actual comments ostensibly from him on the Whedonesque page). This sucks, but the suck is somewhat mitigated by the fact that we would have missed his scheduled panel anyway.
Update: It’s looking more and more like Universal has committed Joss to be there. We’ll be missing that last panel either way, though.

Joss talks about just about everything. Even though I haven’t been especially impressed by Veronica Mars, I’m interested that he enjoys it. I admire Mars creator Rob Thomas, and I find it pleasantly reinforcing when a person whose work I admire admires the work of someone else I admire. He talks about Serenity, but he said nothing that I didn’t want to know before seeing the film.

Want to bike, rollerskate, or scoot on a nice flat surface but not be smushed by cars? Try a trail, my friend.

Just Harry.

Harper’s enumerates a number of decidedly un-Christian behaviors of the most professedly Christian nation (we’re more professedly Christian than Israel is Jewish, f’r Chrissakes). The author calls it a paradox; I’m inclined to call it hypocrisy, or maybe just ignorance of what Christ is reported to have taught.

Harry Shearer’s first novel, Not Enough Indians, will be published next year. You bet I’ll be reading it!

The article is nominally about the return of Sarah Jane Smith, but also includes such tidbits as these:

• David Tennant does appear at the end of the first series (presumably we get to see Eccleston’s regeneration),
• Stephen Fry will write (has written?) an episode for the second series, and, perhaps best of all,
• Tony Head will guest in the second series!

In "the most important find of [its] sort in more than 70 years," 20 silver goblets, plates, and trays collected by their owner (or maybe a looter) into a wicker basket and stashed in a public bath stairwell have been separated and cleaned off.

A combo lock with letters instead of numbers is now available, but it can’t spell everything.