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Sports: The New York Times > Sports > Baseball > Longhorns Coach Apologizes for Missing World Series Ceremony: Yeah, right. Sour grapes grow in Austin. “After losing the championship to Cal State Fullerton on Sunday, the Longhorns did not return to the field to receive their second-place award.”

USA: NASA Ames Research Center - Ames News: “Lunar bases that can travel on wheels, or even legs, will increase landing zone safety, provide equipment redundancy and improve the odds of making key discoveries by enabling crews to visit many lunar sites”

Tech: Xandros Desktop Business Edition: If you need to run Windows or log onto a Windows network, yet you wanna run Linux, take a look at Xandros. It’s based on Debian. The file manager and cd-burning alone are worth the money, but they throw in a version of Crossover Office, too. I find their technical support a bit flaky, but overall the OS works.

USA: Yahoo! News - Police: Mom Threatens Chuck E. Cheese: Our war President should look into this scandal. Sounds like more terrorist evil-doers to me. Time to smoke them out. “Macon police reported that the 17-year-old female employee was dressed as the character — a gray cartoon-like rodent with large front teeth — when a 31-year-old Macon woman threw a piece of pizza at her Sunday afternoon.”

Tech: Yahoo! News - PluggedIn: Look Closely - the Picture May Tell a Story: Here we go again. “In a world where invasion of privacy is increasingly commonplace, the technique called steganography is a relatively easy-to-use method of hiding messages and files — a method that, some say, is most often used for nefarious purposes.”