Author of ’100 Things To Do Before You Die’ dies before seeing them.

‘No Heroics’ is a new comedy show coming soon from ITV about a gang of British super-heroes.

The things you find on Wikipedia #7: Mudchute is a place in London, not a pseudonym for the rectum.

If the European Union combined their efforts at the Olympics, they would be a force to be reckoned with.

On current tallies, they’d be top with 62 gold (China would be in second place with 45) with a total haul of 203 medals (to China’s 79).

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: yet another cinematic installment in George Lucas’ inter-galactic saga, this time a digitally animated feature-length movie targetted at kids with evenly-placed plot and stiff computer game-like characters that aims to introduce a 39-episode TV series due later in 2008.

Rating: 3/5.

Usain Bolt of Jamaica ran the most incredible race to claim gold in the 100 metres at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing today, knocking almost a full second off the world record in the process.

He started celebrating 15 metres before the finish line and looked up at the scoreboard, rather like Ben Jonhson did in 1988 in Seoul. If he had continued to concentrate on running the race, he could possibly have knocked more off the time.

Sunshine: a respectably well-crafted science-fiction tale from director Danny Boyle about a team of scientists and astronauts losing their minds as they journey across space to re-ignite the Sun, borrowing from 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris along the way.

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Small World Experiment, also known as ‘Six Degrees of Separation’, whereby two randomly selected people can be linked to each other by an average of six, was originated by Stanley Milgram (although, he didn’t use the phrase “Six Degrees of Separation”).

Milgram was made famous (or infamous, depending how you view it), by his ‘Obedience to Authority’ experiment, in which participants were compelled to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience (such as repeatedly administering dangerous and lethal electrical shocks to an individual simply because they were instructed to do so by a man wearing a lab coat).