November 17, 2003

» DVD excess

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | The more principle

The set features an interactive multi-angle scene study, a "making-of" documentary, rehearsal footage of the fight between Wolverine and Deathstrike, a gallery of stills and 11 extended or deleted scenes.

Economists call this sort of stuff add-on value: the bigger the blockbuster, the more footage of ancillary blah can be unloaded on deluded obsessives at negligible cost to the studios but at a healthy return in DVDs.

» Piers Morgan (!) is worried about the national obsession with celebrities

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Celebrity nobodies

Even worse, we are also getting so obsessed by these people laughably called stars that we are developing quite scary levels of celebrity psychosis.

» Mystery particle discovered

PhysicsWeb - New particle turns up in Japan

The Belle collaboration at the KEK laboratory in Japan has discovered a new sub-atomic particle which it is calling the "X(3872)". The particle does not fit into any known particle scheme and theorists are speculating that it might be a hitherto unseen type of meson that contains four quarks.