How Far "Ahead Of The Curve" Can You Get?

"The mysterious Stonehenge was a dance arena for ancient revellers listening to 'trance-style' music, according to one professor who is an expert in sound.

Stonehenge has baffled archaeologists who have argued for decades over the stone circle's 5,000-year history - but now academic Dr Rupert Till believes he has solved the riddle by suggesting it may have been used for ancient raves."

-- The Daily Mail

"If someone decides to use nuclear weapons in anger, I hope he buys enough carbon credits beforehand – people and things vaporized by the ensuing fires will put a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere."

-- Frederick C. Kurz, responding to a Dianne Feinstein column on nuclear weapons, in a comment to The Wall Street Journal.


"Incompetence and infighting are endemic to nonprofits, of course. But Wikipedia's bureaucracy is distinctly, fearsomely awful. The site, which dictates the online reputation of countless living people and companies, itself operates by rules that are completely incomprehensible, determined by a self-appointed group of volunteer editors who can seldom stop arguing over obscurities to explain their ways to outsiders."

-- Owen Thomas, giving us all a WTF? moment, over at the ValleyWag.

"A group called the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee is urging President-elect Barack Obama to "end the six-decade truth embargo" on UFOs. Specifically, the group wants Obama to 'demand a full briefing' from the military and intelligence agencies on what they know about extraterrestrial phenomena. They want him to press for congressional hearings. They want him to 'formally acknowledge the extraterrestrial presence.' And make available for development the technologies that aliens have brought to Earth. 



They want him to open thousands of pages of documents, and who knows, maybe even divulge the plot of 'Battlestar Galactica's' final season before it airs this winter."

-- The Chicago Tribune