Discovered just last night by the Catalina Sky Survey at Mount Lemmon Observatory, asteroid 2008 TC will enter the upper atmosphere (and should explode spectacularly) over Northern Sudan in around 30 minutes.
posted to MetaFilter by JaredSeth at 7:13 PM on October 6, 2008 (45 comments)

Bobby Fischer, former World Champion chess player, dead at 64.
posted to MetaFilter by JaredSeth at 4:05 AM on January 18, 2008 (137 comments)

Big Bang for the MegaVerse? Palladium Books, publishers of the once wildly popular Rifts roleplaying game, may be going out of business. For a while things were looking up for the company, with a promising videogame and potential Jerry Bruckheimer movie in the works. Unfortunately, the game was slated for the now largely irrelevant Nokia N-Gage system and Bruckheimer's never been given a Rifts script he liked. Owner and president Kevin Siembieda, reeling from a 7 figure betrayal from within the ranks and deep in debt after sinking thousands of dollars of his own money into the company, turns to the internet for help.
posted to MetaFilter by JaredSeth at 12:06 PM on April 21, 2006 (44 comments)