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It looks like they can fly, sometimes. What do you do on National Pig Day anyway? I could be snarky and suggest some bbq, but I love pigs, Porky and Arnold the Pig included.

It's February 29th -- Happy Leap Day! While others are pondering mysteries like "what happens to a baby born on February 29th?" and "Does this have anything to do with last night's episode of 'Lost'?", we're going to take the opportunity to teach you a shiny new word! It's called intercalation, and it's what Julius Caesar did back in the day to fix the wacky Roman calendar system: inserting extra units of time (in our case, one day at the end of February) into the regular calendar to make up for that 1/4 day imbalance in our time measurement system.

If you haven't noticed, HBO is currently rebroadcasting season one of "Rome" and while it is worth it to watch the episodes on TV you will miss quite a lot. HBO and the BBC teamed up to bring this John Milius/Bruno Heller creation to the screen. Filmed in 35mm it is the most completely detailed and character driven effort to recreate imperial Rome since the abstract, studio-bound 1970s effort, "I Claudius", based on the...