A great article about fear and prejudice on the blog of actress Alison Mack, one of my favorite celebrity bloggers.

On one of my first trips to Reno, Nevada I went to see a show at the Fleishman Planetarium at the local campus of the University of Nevada.  It was my first and, so far, only visit to a planetarium.  I really enjoyed it and I encourage everyone to go to one if you get a chance.  One day, I'll find the time to go again.

In wacky news:

Artist Michael Fernandes exhibited a work in Nova Scotia.  It was a banana on a window sill.  Each day, he would eat the old banana and replace it with a greener one to "demonstrate the banana's transitoriness".  "We (humans) are also temporal, but we live as if we are not," he wrote.  Apparently, some art collectors didn't get it.  Two of them placed a hold (intention to buy) on the work which was priced at $2500.  The gallery had to explain to them that it was just an ordinary banana that they could buy at a supermarket for about 50 cents.

Dumb Crooks:

A robber went into a Walgreens in Florida and handed the clerk a holdup note — on which he hadn't written anything.  The clerk, realizing he was dealing with someone who's low-battery light was blinking, picked up the phone on the counter and dialed 911 with the would-be-crook standing there.  The crook fled the store.

In religion:

Saudi Arabia’s religious police (yes, they really have them, 5000 of them)  have banned selling cats and dogs or exercising them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said.