• Seems that there’s been a banana museum out there for the last 30 years and now it’s been saved (‘course if it hadn’t would you have missed it?)
• More odd animal friends - let’s see how the tortoise feels about things when it’s a full grown chicken
• Bath bombs now come in actual bomb shapes - for a different kind of home spa experience
• Statistics on who believes Aliens are already here (possibly sitting next to you)

So the exorcised ghost auction I mentioned last Friday has concluded and it turns out the going rate is just under $1000 US per ghost.  Which is interesting given that most people (including the seller)  want to get rid of ghosts not add them to the family. Of course, maybe the buyer just really wanted a vial of pale blue water and couldn’t come up with one any other way.

I did a search on the same site and could not come up with any aliens for sale which seems a pity  – anyone that’s watched enough Star Trek knows there are all kinds of aliens without a visible physical presence…

Have you ever wondered what the aliens that make the crop circles do during the winter when there is blowing snow and no crops to disturb? I’m assuming you prefer the alien theory over drunken villagers but either will do as crop circles are most definitely seasonal.

Apparently they (who ever they are) roll giant snow balls which sounds almost as much fun although not quite as decorative, but give them time.  I won’t be that surprised if they start showing up in artistic patterns.  Although this article is quite dismissive of the crop circle connection you can see a picture and decide for yourself whether this is a freak of nature or the work of really bored extraterrestrials.  I’m particularly fond of the statement ‘world’s most remote and frozen regions’ which apparently means the American mid-west.

• Google is going old-fashioned and offering to send a free real postcard for you anywhere in the US – might be a good time to remember that the post office considers all mail to the military to be local in terms of price so go cheer up a soldier!
• Peace on Earth apparently ends at exactly 9:58 a.m.  Who knew?
• You just gotta love democracy – a petition successfully goes on Denver ballot to create an Extraterrestrial Affaires Commission
• If you periodically swear at Microsoft, Windows, or the Blue Screen of Death, you want to see this portrait of Steve Ballmer.  If you never swear, it may still be interesting…

• A new word, Plutophile, probably the first and only planet(oid) to have a fan club
• The Vatican weighs in favorably on aliens – maybe not so surprising considering the declining flocks here on Earth
• You can now buy a pop-up book of the Hadron Collider (the one that some said would end the world) ’cause geeks start early and who doesn’t love a pop-up book?
• Shrinky-dinks finally  get academic justification
• A professor got graduate students to promise to go to hell if they cheated, data not in on how effective this strategy really is.

• Norwegian cows get fancy beds for lounging by law -not all that surprising when you consider that the Norse origination myth features a cow, Audumla.
• Invariably it’s the low-tech solutions that make for a successful prison break.
• Canadian scientists have been studying sheep personalities since 1969 – the comments to that are so obvious and numerous why waste the time typing?
• We may soon get an entire movie about alien abduction in Alaska, because aliens are so much more likely than falling through a crack in the ice.

Living in America, UFOs seem like an American preoccupation.  It was interesting to see (non-serious) news regarding British UFOs although strangely the American military still seems to be the primary source regarding experimental flights and air-born equipment. Without taking it too seriously I have heard people dismiss UFO sightings because they have never heard of them outside of the United States.  It turns out that based on collected reports and mapping, it’s pretty much a global phenomenon and happens more in cities than the country despite the frequent ditching of flying saucers/weather balloons in remote fields. 

So are they from outer space or an0ther universal human experience like mothers that tell their children to wear clean underwear in case they have to go to the hospital?  (The last has been personally verified for seven different countries on all the occupied continents.)

A tribute song to the inventor of chicken nuggets – I had no idea anyone was willing to take credit

Hopefully this Canadian crime wave will cease before the Olympics

There’s a sheep photography competition – a creative challenge if ever there was one

Apparently carrots started out purple – who knew?

UFO-spotting and alien abduction is becoming more popular in Turkey including the brief, friendly abduction of 1991 Eurovision contestant, Reyhan Karaca, by a ‘prawn-colored’ alien -  not the usual color so maybe things are looking up in alien fashions.

The crop circles of 2009 are promising to surpass earlier years. So either the aliens are getting better at it or the secret prize money at the local pub is enough to be inspiring.  I quite like the jellyfish design this year – the first ever jellyfish  crop circle but then there are a lot of things that have yet to be represented.  I wonder if I can put in  a request for a ladybug?

The Raelians are planning your next vacation destination. And what a perfect spot – to the best of my knowledge there aren’t any space/alien themed casinos in Las Vegas which is a definite oversight. Although there are no plans for a casino mentioned, there will be a “life-size” UFO, a museum and lecture hall.  According to their press release they had a UFOLand in Canada that closed two years ago – I certainly never heard it mentioned on the Travel Channel so here’s hoping they improve a few things.