Ten travel tips from Sir Francis Bacon

Mildly amusing. ;-)

http://www.worldhum.com/lists/item/10_sizzling_hot_tavel_times_from_sir_francis_bacon_20071025/

Things that you may not have considered about living in space

One set of silverware per person, one change of clothes for your entire mission, and hoarding M&M's!

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=4450259

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/15/1518208

Some of the Slashdot comments are quite interesting, including allegations that the article contains VERY dated material.