I don't even know where to start. Here's the link. Read the comments. I've got no idea what's going on with this one, but something isn't right.

The Sun newspaper somehow managed to get hold of, and subsequently released, cockpit video of a couple of America A-10 jets strafing British forces in Iraq. Here's The Sun's story. The videos are currently available in two parts on youtube. Here they are. I can't imagine they will be available for long... Part 1: Part 2:

A female NASA astronaut has been charged with attempted first-degree murder. It seems Lisa Nowak, described as "a 43-year-old Navy captain and married mother of three" has, it seems, become all murderous towards a colleague. It's all related to love and jealousy. Police found, among other things, a steel mallet, knife, rubber tubing and large garbage bags in Nowak's car. You can read the Washington Post's coverage on the article here. Look, if you have access to a space ship, here's how you go about offing someone:

Such mistreatment included the fondling of breasts and vaginas and using the head of a torso for inappropriate and degrading purposes.

Woo hoo.

These claims rock the School of Anatomy at the University of New South Wales.

Read the story here.

Then read this.

For my money, I want to be frozen.

A few days ago in the States, people began spotting Mooninites (those relentlessly destructive moon dwelling creatures from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force) stuck to buildings and other structures. The things were made out of LED lights and a bunch of batteries. Here's a picture of one of them. Anyway, on learning about the existence of these objects the authorities in Boston freaked the fuck out...cordoning off blocks, shutting highways, sending in specialist forces, and generally blowing up anything that looked electronic or had wires. When I first read about it I was laughing out aloud in the office where I work, trying to explain to my colleague the general premise of ATHF (milkshake, box of fries, meat ball...living in New Jersey...used to be private detectives but that didn't make them any money...). The thought of super-cops running around blowing up little Ignignots and Errs really cracked me up. It all looked like a funny end for what turned out to be a marketing campaign for the upcoming ATHF movie. But now it's all turned nasty. Peter Berdovsky, the guy who designed the ads, and a counterpart, have been arrested and charged with, from what I can gather, perpetrating a hoax. As to what the hoax is supposed to be, I can't seem to figure out but it seems the suggestion is that they were hoax bombs; that the aim of the campaign was to convince everyone that there were bombs everywhere. Here's one of what will probably be some ongoing Boing Boing round-up posts.