The article doesn't mention terrorists. Just because someone plants a bomb doesn't automatically make them a terrorist. In this case, it was just gangsters.

Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen look like they're getting ready for a bit of the old.. ultra-violence.

Cute, but I can't help but feel that must be a bugger to clean afterwards.

Jew's ear is a type of bracket fungi. It's "just" a mushroom flavoured drink.

I object to people using bi-weekly as it could be understood to mean "twice per week" or "once every two weeks". Look at biannual for instance, that means occurring twice a year. Fortnightly however removes that ambiguity.

This seems to be quite a similar (aquatic) version of same.

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Sirenidae.html

Oh man, I didn't realise they were even going to bother with a second one. Given how I-think-it-gave-me-cancer bad the last x-files movie was, I'd be staggered if this one wasn't similar. If it's a stand-alone one and not a cliffhanger (like most of the series tended to be) then cool, bring it on though.

Don't forget his inordinate fondness for beetles -J. B. S. Haldane

I'm surprised the bridge of sighs in oxford isn't included, I consider it extremely pretty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bridge-of-sighs.jpg