mySociety: a VoxPolitics project - this sounds like a good idea - an organisation that wants to develope social/community enhancing Internet-based material

Fox nearly sued itself over 'Simpsons' parody: Matt Groening - The evil empire that is Rupert Murdoch's News corp - probably one of the most pernicious threats to enlightened society shows just how byzantine it's workings are. It's definately ttime that governments of this world clubbed together and taxed the bastard out of existence - it's why he hates the notion of European integration and why he has tried to get a stranglehold on so much of the world's media interests. If there is one person who is more evil than Bill Gates, it's Rupert Murdoch

Dramatic recovery of stolen Mayan artifact - a Mayan altar, which was stolen two years ago has been recovered from the looters who were trying to sell it to local drug barons. Sounds like the plot of an action movie - though I guess there would be lots of gore and spookiness attached

Some people will do anything for their 15 minutes of fame!! - some weird guy failed to beat his own world record for clipping clothes pegs to his face. The record standss at 153 though he could only manage to get 150 on his face yesterday. Word of caution - it's probably not a good idea to do this after having just used Botox

bluejackQ with a Q - this sounds like a great new sport - sending anonymous phones by bluetooth to anyone in the vicinity -

One-Term President Now I find this ever so heartwrming and reassuring - an organised campaign to oust the shaved monkey dictator of the US. If there is any justice in this world (which unfortunately I am not convinced there is), they cabal of puppet masters won't be able to have another coup d'etat - but then, as the saying goes a country gets the government it deserves, which unfortunately says about as much about britain as it does about the US

Perhaps someone should start distributing anti-Blair stencils

Do You Believe? A Ghostly Gallery from The American Museum of Photography - This is quite a hoot - lots of early spirit photographs - terrible double exposures and trick shots that look, quite frankly, dreadful and unconvincing

Fossil find fills evolution gap - www.smh.com.au - it seems one of the earliest fossilised chondrites - the bridge between invertebrates and vertebrates - basically an blob-like worm with a stiffening rod along its back

Yahoo! News - Israeli Workers Damage Byzantine Site - True to form, the Israeli military set about destroying the remains of a 1,500 year old monastery which was in the way of the jerusalem wall - a razor wire and concrete fence they are busy building around Jerusalem in an attempt to stop suicide bombers.

I would have thought it was obvious that the easiest way to stop the suicide bombers would be to stop acting as they have for the last few years.

How can a nation be allowed to carry on this genocidal destructive behaviour towards their impoverished neighbours?

Did the Berlin Wall ever achieve anything apart from being the symbol of East German oppression - Does Isreal think it's crown of thorns will be any different???

I pity all innocent victims on both sides of the river Jordan, howevermaking a fence, destroying archaeological sites and commiting random acts of genocide will not prevent further violence happening, they will make it more likely

Dutch Cargo Ship Find Gives Clue to Roman Defense A newly discovered Roman boat in Holland has shown that Roman supply boats could sail upstream as well as down...

Previously it was thought that supply boats were cannibalised for building materials but this does not now seem to be the case

Mystery of the mummies solved Someone has discovered the active antibacterial agent used in mummification is an extract from cedar wood. This turns on it's head previously accepted theories that an extract of juniper berries were used

Wan Hu: China's 16th century astronaut A Chinese legend says the first man into space was a guy who strapped giant fireworks and kites to his chair. when the fuses were lit, there was a giant explosion and no trace was ever found of the pilot - wouldn't it be funny if one day they found the remains of a Chinese chair on the moon

From fairy stories to every man's worst horror story Police in Kenya are trying to arrest some women who chopped of their unfaithful husbands' penises - good on em, I say

Without his manhood at least he will invest all his money on our three children's education and upkeep instead of moving around with other women, one of the wives was quoted as saying by the Kenyan East African Standard newspaper.

From fairy stories to every man's worst horror story Police in Kenya are trying to arrest some women who chopped of their unfaithful husbands' penises - good on em, I say

Without his manhood at least he will invest all his money on our three children's education and upkeep instead of moving around with other women, one of the wives was quoted as saying by the Kenyan East African Standard newspaper.

Albanian boy traded for TV rescued - www.smh.com.au This could be from a Grimms" Fairy Tale - wonder what the old dears wanted to do - maybe they wanted to fatten the poor little chap up and eat him. I do hope the Father got a magic television in payment for his child

E-spying on your mate? Watch out And if it isn't bad enough coca Cola keeping tabs on you, now you can pay a company to bug your nearest and dearest and track their computer activities. Oh dear, where has the trust gone???

It's the real thing - Coca Cola is watching you! Coke plan to track winners of special cans of coke by using satellite tracking of special cans - Thankfully this little infringement of one's personal liberties is going to be restricted to the US and Canada. It's bad enough that store loyalty cards track our preferences and stores are beginning to target us with things they think we'd like - imagine the position where the manufacturers not only know what you like to buy to eat and drink, but also know where and when you consume it - what next, robot stalkers who jump on you offering you their rubbish products like cyber pushers?

Teenage boy in Wales photographs a meteor burning upThis young lad was out and about with his digital camera and took an amazing photograph which he emailed to NASA for an explanation and became NASA's amateur photograph of the day