Two things that've caught my eyes in the news today. The first is the Michael Moore's all cool with people pirating Fahrenheit 9/11. Rock on, dude. Information wants to be free and all that.
The second item is that there's a good possibility of life being discovered on one of Saturn's moons. It's not little green dudes, of course, but there's ice 'mixed with material that may be organic'. It's not much of a hope but if its true then it means the Universe has a possibility of being littered with life, much the same way my bedroom is littered with dust.