Via Slashdot:

"Not much more to add. The BBC is reporting that 'Stephen Hawking is "very ill" in hospital.' He has had a few health scares before, and as a post-graduate he was told he didn't have much longer to live; he's now 67."

Hawking, who everyone knows as that really smart guy in the wheel chair who can't speak, suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is frankly a horrible condition. His prognosis from that alone is `not good.`

Well, that's put a damper on my day.