News You Can Bruise for 2006 March 2

• Just when you thought Lucene couldn't get any cooler, now it has an Atom-based web service API.
• What causes double rainbows? The surprising answer... after this!
• A cool-sounding movie about the sun. No details are available about this cool-sounding movie, but you can learn fun facts about the sun.
• This PBEM game about the Singularity sounds like a great idea, but after reading the rules I think the dressing is the main cool thing, and the game mechanics are kind of generic. Let's come up with some Singularity-specific game mechanics.
• Displaying large datasets atop Google Maps

Turns out double rainbows are caused by inflation. Now here's Bob with the weather!