AP - The astronaut who lost her tool bag on a spacewalk admitted Wednesday that she made a mistake by not checking to see if the sack was tied down, and said she's still smarting over the whole thing.

SPACE.com - NASA astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper is lamenting the lost tool bag that escaped her grip during a Tuesday spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

FiveThiryEight is monitoring the the recount of the Minnesota Senate race between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman. So far, it's not going well for either of them.

The Minnesota recount has started, with the results being updated in semi-real time on the Star Tribune's webpage. Thus far, with about 5 percent of the ballots recounted, Coleman has lost 55 votes and Franken has lost 61.

The reason the vote totals are going down when you might intuitively expect them to go up is that either candidate has a right to challenge any ballot for any reason, even if it had been counted as legal originally. When a vote is challenged, it is deducted from the opposing candidate's total. These challenged votes will go before the state canvassing board in December and be debated (and debated and debated) one by one (by one by one). Thus far, Coleman has issued 79 challenges and Franken 61, a rate that puts us on pace for about 2,800 challenges statewide.

You can monitor the recount numbers yourself here.

· The island escapees have reconvened in Century City. · Left-behind leaders Juliet and Sawyer are clearly going to "do it." This will set up a love square that will only reach its...

At the NY Observer, John Koblin has a fun rundown of the press hyperventilation over Obama's possible but not quite yet offer of State and Hillary's possible but not quite yet acceptance.

When Rolling Stone plunked down the first review of Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy last week, we stacked it up against Chuck Klosterman's 2006 April-Fool's review of the album from Spin, and found a...

Coldplay are out with the live video for their single 'Lost+', featuring Jay-Z, from the British alternative rock group's EP 'Prospekt's March', out November 25th on Capitol/Parlophone. Watch it...

AP - A spacewalking astronaut accidentally let go of her tool bag Tuesday after a grease gun inside it exploded, and helplessly watched as the tote and everything inside floated away.

AP - It's not easy holding on to a small bag some 200 miles above Earth.

RENTON, Wash. -- The Seattle Seahawks knew this season was going to be unique. They didn't know that for most of them, it would be unprecedented.

CNET - Are the Beatles finally ready to make a magical mystery tour into the world of online music?

Few artists get to change the very definition of the form in which they work, but the Swedish trio EST's mix of lyricism and thunder, shaped by its leader Esbjorn Svensson's brilliantly melodic compositions and underpinned by the group's telepathic improvisations, permanently redefined the boundaries of jazz. Even fewer artists opt to step off the production line that is leading them to success. But Svensson was no ordinary artist. Siggi Loch, the head of his record label, ACT, remembers him getting "all these offers to play last winter, but he said, 'No, I'm taking three months off, I'm taking my kids out of school, and we're going on a world tour'."

Barring the obvious differences in picture quality (which also make clear the advantages of a dSLR working in good natural lighting), aren’t the similarities between the Nokia N96 and the N81 8GB as apparent?

Much better pics and a review to follow, in that order. For now, here’s another pic for your satisfaction:

Let’s hope the N96 isn’t as slow as its older counterpart. Dun dun dunnnn!!

Tags: comparisons, First Impressions, Nokia N81 8GB, nokia n96

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Jack reads Aaron a bedtime story.. written by LOST Bloggers?? You get to be the storyteller in this special edition of the LOST Photo Caption.

If ever proof were needed that we love to hate our icons it comes in the form of the suggestion that Kate Winslet's fan base might be alienated by the fact that she is photographed, nearly naked and, more importantly, ultra-slender on the front cover of this month's 'Vanity Fair'. The star's image has not been "air-brushed" her people claim (true, obviously – it's all done digitally these days) although a certain amount of "colour correction" may have been involved.

Witness the questionable videogames that limped to life on 1989's lame TurboGrafx-16 upgrade from NEC.

Frank Lapidus gets a chance to meet Kevin Johnson - Ben's spy aboard the freighter - in this edition of the LOST Photo Caption.

Whet your "Lost" appetite with the first season 5 trailer.

A nearly two-decades old bit of space junk has been found in the Australian outback.

A solid rocket motor casing from a U.S. Delta 2 launch vehicle nearly 18 years after it reentered was found last July during a routine muster of cattle on a three-million-acre pastoral property.

First spotted by air from a Cessna aircraft flying over the property, the debris was later identified using a serial number - traced to the motor casing of a Delta 2 booster used on June 12, 1990 to deliver the Indian INSAT-1D into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

According to NASA’s Orbital Debris Quarterly News, the object joins similar solid rocket motor casings found in Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Argentina during the past several years.

When Ben, Locke, and Hurley set out in search of Jacob's cabin they encounter flying monkeys, a good witch, a bad witch, and a box of stale 15 year old munchkins... well, not really.. but in the world of LOST Photo Captions, anything is possible.