The Morning Report

• A whole bunch of Dr. Horrible goodies are on the horizon. [Wired] - Including web comics featuring Captain Hammer and Moist. Woo hoo!

• David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel get chatty about tonight's season premiere of "Bones." [Zap2It] - And you know it's going to be classy because it's in London. Cue sad cultural jokes.
  

• World's most powerful magnet being built in Florida [Gizmodo] - I hope it's in the shape of a giant chick.
  

• Brent Spiner ("Data" to all you non-Trekkies) has another album coming out...and this worries the good folks at io9. [io9] - My personal opinion, having watched the video, is that Brent is a goofy guy who's serious about his CD. Good for him.

• Does anyone else wish it was this Palin running for vice president instead of the real one? The absurdist British humor vote would be a lock...and CNN would be a lot less ridiculous right now. At least we still have the McCain-Palin/Tigh-Roslin thing to keep us entertained.
  

Astronauts are known to overpack

It seems like it’s been difficult for the media to get over the fact that people who volunteer to have themselves strapped to enormous explosives and shot into space might be mentally unstable. That’s the only explanation I can find for stories like this one, which details the items found in astronaut Lisa Nowak’s car when she set out to allegedly kidnap her romantic rival.

I’ve heard other items were found in her trunk, too, including:

* Fergie’s junk
* A Choose Your Own Adventure: Spurned Rocket Scientist edition
* One pair of handcuffs, formerly used by Harry Houdini
* One burst appendix, formerly used by Harry Houdini
* A copy of DIY magazine
* Fourteen shocked news analysts
* A butterfly net
* Sigmund Freud shamefully spooning a kitten
* Michael Palin, host of A&E’s “Coast to Coast in the Trunk of a Fucking Lunatic”
* Two tickets to Paradise
* And the last shred of NASA’s dignity