Getting these out a couple of days late. Doh! What can I say? Got busy doing other things. Better late than never. Enjoy what's left of the weekend!

Photo Gallery: 1,000 Tombs Discovered in Colombia
A skeleton emerges from the floor of an ancient grave in a photo taken in April 2008, one of nearly a thousand tombs recently discovered in Bogotá, Colombia. Builders clearing land for a housing project in the city's Usme district uncovered the burial site last year.

Photo Gallery: Lost Cities
The breathtaking city of Petra was a vibrant trading hub that vanished from most maps in the seventh century A.D. It lay beneath a thousand years of dust and debris when, in 1812, a Swiss scholar disguised as a Bedouin trader identified the ruins as the ancient Nabataean capital.

Mars lander sends photos from Red Planet's arctic
NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander began sending photos of the planet's surface on the first day of its three-month mission "to taste and sniff the northern polar site's soil and ice," the space agency said.

Microsoft Pulls Plug on Live Search Books
In an early morning post, Microsoft announced that it is ending Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and taking down both sites.

Borders Web Site Now Live
After seven years of outsourcing its e-commerce function to Amazon, Borders relaunched its Borders.com Web site today under its own control.

007 Runs Full-Throttle Through a New Book
It’s the big day: the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ian Fleming. Without Fleming, who died in 1964 at 56, we would never have had the debonair company of James Bond, the creative sadism of Goldfinger and Dr. No or the pet octopus named Octopussy. Without the benefit of Fleming, however, we’ve had Octopussy as a cinematic Bond Girl in 1983, part of a movie franchise that is miraculously resuscitated (most recently by Daniel Craig as Bond in “Casino Royale”) each time it falters, and a string of ersatz Bond books by fill-in writers. To this shaky bibliography we can now add “Devil May Care.”