Add this to the parade of indignities visited upon us by the TSA: people in a security line were momentarily exposed to Shat-shanks:

That makes sense. "Officials" couldn't recognize William Shatner. In Los Angeles.

INTERNET:You've seen the "Hello, this is dog" picture, of course. If you've ever thought I bet that's not a picture someone took for the fun of it, but a frame from a 1980s Balkan movie about the drug subculture, you win. Now seeping into general internet release is an animated gif of the entire dog-talking sequence.

Also, re: yesterday's question of whether Pinterest is mostly for women: this.

SCIENCE! Mars has "oceans of water"? Scientists, says the National Geographic, "estimate that the Martian mantle currently contains between 70 and 300 parts per million of water—enough to cover the planet in liquid 660 to 3,300 feet (200 to 1,000 meters) deep."

We're talking about a guy in a desert looking at distant planet, which is also a desert, and imagining lots and lots of water. It's a mirage, friend. Sorry.

Just kidding. They're studying Martian meteorites, which got here when something large hit Mars, sent chunks into space, which crossed a vast distance and landed on Earth. Odds seem small, but there you go. If Mars has lots of water, then perhaps it didn't arrive via comets and asteroids, as some suspect. I always had a hard time believing that, really - the idea of water-bearing meteors hitting the planet like some cosmic bucket brigade, filling up the oceans, seems to require a vast number of meteors with the proper composition, steadily bombarding a moving object. It's like drowning a guy on the fifteenth floor of an apartment building by throwing bottled water at a window that's halfway ajar.

But, well, the science suggests otherwise, and last year's experiments suggest the Kuiper belt rocks may have been responsible. Everything is possible over enough time. So it took 10 million years to fill up the oceans? In universe terms, that's a blink of a hummingbird's eye.