We discuss Spore, a new and eagerly awaited video game that allows users to create penis-creatures (and some other stuff). People study narcissists on Facebook, diseases on World of Warcraft, and sonar-controlled rat-bots. While Spam welcomes our new robot overlords, Redux shoots his Roomba, and the Internet goes completely out of control, Zee reminds us to make sure our mechanical killing machines don’t have Alzheimer’s. Oh, and the Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to destroy the solar system in the next few weeks.