Can one chance encounter change your life? What if it only lasts a few days? That’s one of the central questions in Weekend, the new drama opening in New York today and expanding nationwide through October. The critically acclaimed film chronicles a fling between two young men, and their interactions after one reveals he’s bound for distant shores in just a couple days.

Weekend isn’t the only film to set a courtship against a countdown. Lloyd Dobler might never have brought out the boom box if Diane Court wasn’t bound for Britain, and even Cinderella had to get back before midnight. Timed with the arrival of Weekend, we asked the film’s director, Andrew Haigh, to give us his favorite ticking clock romances from the silver screen.

Close Boehner ally Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, frames the FEMA funding fight:

Zynga is making one of its most popular games, CityVille, available on Google+.

Neutrinos are trending after the subatomic particles were clocked traveling faster than the speed of light.

Neutrinos are almost massless and capable of traveling through ordinary matter basically unaffected. Researchers fired an underground beam of them from CERN's Geneva base to a lab 454 miles away in Gran Sasso, Italy. They found that the neutrinos beat particles of light to Italy by 60 nanoseconds, or sixty billionths of a second.

The result, if it holds up, would challenge one of the pillars of Einstein's theory of special relativity, proposed in 1905.  Many scientists remain skeptical, believing that something is amiss with the experiment and that 186,282 miles per second remains the cosmic speed limit.

Today in misleading science reporting: headlines screaming about a study that supposedly demonstrated that "dominant women have less sex." That is, women who have more power in their heterosexual relationships have less sex. You can hear the gleeful squeals of anti-feminists all over the Internet: finally, proof that women's happiness is dependent on their submission! Woooo!

In a meaty piece, the Financial Times’ Joseph Menn paints a revealing portrait of Anonymous, LulzSec, and the hacktivist culture. Though the subheading promises to demonstrate “Why the world is scared of hacktivists,” the most interesting part of the piece might be the discussion of internecine battles and diverging philosophical approaches to hacktivism. For instance, some who were onboard with denial-of-service attacks aimed at supporting WikiLeaks were discomfited by subsequent missions that they saw as self-serving. Others scoffed at Anonymous’ insistence that its group had no leaders. Menn writes,

Most people just can’t do the classic dance the robot. Training your muscles to move in that sharp-edged mechanical way requires body discipline, work, and no small amount of inborn talent.