From Space.com:

The reason many people see a figure on the Martian landscape is the same reason that people see faces in clouds, Rorschach blots, and coffee stains. This phenomenon, called pareidolia, is well known in psychology, and it is the cause of many supposedly mysterious and miraculous events (including the famous "Jesus in the Tortilla"). Examples are all around us; in fact if you have a New Hampshire state quarter, you have pareidolia in your pocket or purse (take a look).

Strong evidence for this psychological explanation lies in the fact that the Spirit image does not look like Martian life (since we don't know what life on Mars looks like), but instead resembles life here on Earth, specifically human life. The image is the result of human interpretation. If you look around the full image of the area (not just the close-up), you will find several rocks and features that resemble non-human Earth life, such as armadillos and snakes. In the right bottom corner, emerging from the sand, there is what looks like a lizard face wearing goggles and an airman's helmet.

Or it's a "change agent" for the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. You decide.

I am recovering nicely, thank you. But during the times when I would have worked on the cartoon, I was in bed with a fever. It wasn't a total loss. I re-read Douglas Addams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, which I discovered was much better than I had thought on my first read fifteen years ago.

Still marching my way through Richard Dawkins' The Ancestors' Tale, conceived a la Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales as a pilgrimage backwards through time toward several "rendesvous" with other species at points of common ancestry, or "concestors." Along the way, each species has a "tale" to tell: The Neanderthal's Tale, The Bonobo's Tale, etc. While my understanding of evolution deepens, occasionally I have to bring my head up for air.

On one such gasp, I youtubed Dawkins and came across a series of lectures he and other prominent scientists delivered a year or so ago on the conflicts between science and religion. You can watch the whole series at Beyond Belief 2006. Despite the high percentage of atheists among the speakers, don't expect total harmony of thought or "group think" among them - they are scientists, after all. Some, like Dawkins or Sam Harris, view religion as an enemy to be vanquished; others view religion as something to be accommodated as scientists seek to overcome public fears and ignorance regarding, say, the orbit of the earth around the sun; and still others argue that science and religion are, in Stephen Jay Gould's words, "non-overlapping magesteria." One thing everyone agrees on: intelligent design is bullshit. If you have the time, check it out.

They found a HUGE dinosaur in Argentina!!!!

Scientists from Argentina and Brazil said the Patagonian dinosaur appears to represent a previously unknown species of Titanosaur because of the unique structure of its neck. They named it Futalognkosaurus dukei after the Mapuche Indian words for "giant" and "chief," and for Duke Energy Argentina, which helped fund the skeleton's excavation.

Look, I'm dumb. I can't pronounce the dinosaur's name. I'll just shorten it to "Funkosaurus."