On Display Tonight: The Year’s Best Meteor Shower  The universe
made this special for you. Aren't you going to watch? Photo:
SEBASTIAN DERUNGS/AFP/Getty Images  The planets are aligning
(yes, literally) for the annual Perseid meteor shower. Tonight,
Venus, Saturn, Mars, and the crescent moon will converge in the
Western sky. Around 10:30 (local time) once the moon starts
setting and the sky turns dark, you should be able to see
shooting stars, caused when dust and debris left by the Swift-
Tuttle comet collide with the Earth's atmosphere and burn up.
Perhaps we will not have a cocktail and watch bad television as
we had originally planned! [Wired]