Paul Gleason, the actor probably best known for playing principal Richard Vernon in The Breakfast Club, and deputy police chief Dwayne T. Robinson in Die Hard, has died from lung cancer at the age of 67.

Charlie Brooker comments on this year’s Big Brother, in The Guardian Unlimited.

On Sezer:

“There are a million identical dullards in the capital alone – hurl a bag of shit into any bar in central London and the chances are it’ll burst over four or five of them.“

Check out this infinitely zoomable photo mosaic. Very cool.

Found on Kottke.

If you’re thinking of going to see the new X-Men movie, X-Men 3: The Last Stand, there’s extended trailer at the Dell website.

Ain’t It Cool News has a link to the most recent Superman Returns trailer.

Look out for the scene at the end of the trailer – as Harry Knowles says, it’s a killer.

Captain Picard’s Journal – a diary of a harassed Starfleet officer in the 24th Century on the Star Trek of life.

Olympic champion Justin Gatlin broke the 100 metre world record on Friday 12 May at the Qatar Grand Prix.

His new time of 9.76 seconds is one hundreth of a second faster than the previous record, held by Asafa Powell of Jamaica.

Petrol firm Shell has suspended use of chip-and-pin in more than 600 of their petrol stations following a £1million fraud.

Basically, that means Chip and Pin has lasted less than three months.

What chance do National ID cards have?