In the annals of weird news headlines, “Devon braces as irritable Ike turns his eye toward Gulf” might make you think of the English county – and not a US based oil drilling firm.

I know I did.

http://www.journalrecord.com/article.cfm?recid=91961

It’s a dangerous place is Rockhampton, Australia.

Mon – Car damaged in supermarket car park

Tue – Shopping trolley rage leaves woman in fear of shopping

Wed – Public split on trolley rage incident

I can’t wait for tomorrows edition – probably ” Trolley Rage Man Speaks Out”

A report on Reuters makes me wonder if British Rail (or whatever they are called this week) are not quite as incompetent as we tend to think they are.

Over half a million passengers could be left stranded at a railway station in south China on Monday ahead of the biggest holiday of the year after snow cut power to more than 136 trains, state media said.

I wonder if it was the wrong type of snow.

Can you imagine if that had happened in the UK – an outcry or just a very British shrug of the shoulders and a mutter under the breath?

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Reuters

A report in the Washington Post, citing unnamed government sources is claiming that a US spy satellite has lost control and is on an uncontrolled crash path back to earth. The controllers apparently have no way to tell at the moment where it will land – so it could end up on your house.

The article weirdly though spends most of its time worrying about the possibility of the rocket fuel inside the satellite being harmful – although I would have thought having a bus sized lump of metal landing on top of you would be vastly more harmful.

Watch the Skies!

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Washington Post

The Thing

A slightly freaky sight this morning. Following an accident last night with the cooking and a bad case of negligence on my part, quite a bit of muck was on the hob – so I applied a liberal coating of “generic hob cleaning stuff: Brand A” and left it over night.

Woke up and went in to be greeted by this…

Being a bit of a fan of Egyptology, I instantly recognised the shape as being significant. More exactly, I recognised the shape and its significance, then spent ages on Google and trawling through some books to try and remember what it is called.

It is similar to the Egyptian Solar Disc surrounded by two snakes (Uraeus). It represents the God Horus in the form of his battle with Set – and the two snakes are the goddesses Nekhbet and Uazet.

OK – do I really think that the Egyptian God Horus paid a visit to my flat overnight – well, no I don’t.

It is an interesting formation overnight which looks significant, but only because it is in a shape I recognise. Had it been in the shape of (for example) the logo to some reality TV show, I wouldn’t have even recognised it.

I am however, curious as to how the cleaning fluid pulled away so cleanly to leave the lines, and also how the lines are consistant regardless of the thickness of the cleaning fluid I left out overnight.