Hit by Apple

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="360" caption="Spiral UFO"] [/caption] They say it's been quite a show - something weird shot into the sky, leaving a spiraling blue tail, and then "exploded" into a spiral pattern. From the video it does seem like it could have been a misfired rocket that went into a spin, and it's perhaps the simplest explanation for the spiral pattern. But what a great source for conspiracy and UFO theories!

Carrier pigeon beats DSL broadband (from BBC News, watch the video ): Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon. A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom. Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data. Now, how funny is that ?

For the annoyingly cheerful ones. If you are too happy with life, you are probably sick… FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful (spoof alert!!)

This is not a setup - I saw this near the Shoreline Lake in Mountain View, CA in Aug 2006.

I recently received this fable in my inbox. If you know its original source, please let me know . If you have difficulty understanding the current world financial situation, the following should help clear matters… Once upon a time in a village in India, a man announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10. The villagers seeing there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10, but, as the supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their efforts. The man further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.