News Briefs 15-07-2009

Ambigrams are all the rage!

• This year's crop circle season continues to amaze with this 'woven' design in Wiltshire, but is it trumped by this rice crop art?
• Colin Andrews calls for calm in the aftermath of the crop circle 'alien sighting'.
• Museum of unworkable devices. Is Rick's Mac in there? (h/t Clive Pickover)
• Missouri man's UFO encounter causes missing time. Meanwhile, Nick Redfern crosses the time barrier.
• UFO seen by many above WTC site.
• A review of the skeptical love-fest that is The Amazing Meeting.
• X-Planes: A photoblog of experimental aircraft and exotic aeromachines.
• Smile detectors scan and rank workers daily. Ironically, the perfect thing to remove desired smiles.
• Do you really want to live forever?
• Monkey feeds itself via brain chip and prosthetic arm. Does that count as tool use?
• Clooney's movie adaptation of Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare a Goats - an early review.
• Sheeple.
• Bishop says holy water spreads disease.
• Six kilometers of caves discovered on Easter Island.
• Now that's what I call predation!

Quote of the Day:

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Dalai Lama