Two big announcements from the new Indiana Jones movie: 

1.  The character of Mola Ram will not be returning to the franchise to reprise his role from The Temple of Doom.

2.  The official title of the movie is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

I'm slightly disappointed with both.  Regardless, here's a bit of info on crystal skulls:

These skulls, found near the ancient ruins of Mayan and Aztec civilizations (with some evidence linking the skulls with past civilization in Peru) are a mystery as profound as the Pyramids of Egypt, the Nazca Lines of Peru, or Stonehenge. Some of the skulls are believed to be between 5,000 and 36,000 years old.

Many indigenous people speak of their remarkable magical and healing properties, but nobody really knows where they came from or what they were used for. Were they left behind after the destruction of a previous world, such as Atlantis? Are they simply ingenious modern fakes or can they really enable us to see deeply into the past and predict the future? 

Much research is currently being done on the skulls. However, their origin is still a baffling mystery. They seem to defy logic. Everything that is known about lapidary work indicates that the skulls should have been shattered fractured, or fallen apart when carved.

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From Reuters:

A man watches a three-legged duckling at a farm in Tancheng county, east China's Shandong province September 4, 2007. Experts told local media that a gene mutation contributed to the aberrance.

Don't let the drug use, spousal abuse, jail time, sex tapes, and "MAYHEM" tattoo stamped across his stomach fool you – public perception of Tommy Lee boils down to a trite Rock 'n Roll stereotype.  I wondered what could have happened to make a class act like Tommy get escorted out of the MTV Music Awards?  From TheLedger.com:

MTV VJ Sway said during the post-show that he saw Kid Rock walk up to the Motley Crue drummer, who was sitting next to Diddy, and "deck him." The incident was confirmed by Palms Hotel and Casino public relations representative Larry Fink.

Both Lee and Kid Rock are ex-husbands of Pamela Anderson, who was a presenter at the show and delivered her lines from atop a table in the audience. Although it wasn't clear whether the two rockers were fighting over something related to Anderson, it was hard to imagine another scenario.