I agree with the Dalai Lama, sleep is the best meditation. If it wasn't for the alarm, I could achieve enlightenment.

• New NASA images show Saturn's polar hexagon ablaze with blue light.
• 2800-year-old monument to the soul discovered in Turkey. The country, that is.
• More info, with pics, on the 11000-year-old ruins of Gobekli Tepe.
• Excellent multimedia travel feature on the proud Maya of Chiapas.
• Palaeontologists piece together 460'000-year-old woolly rhinoceros skull.
• Skeletal remains of entire family found in 4600-year-old grave.
• Repairing a rare 2500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus shattered in a student protest almost four decades ago.
• German artist to rebuild Colossus of Rhodes as giant light sculpture. It will be destroyed by a giant mechanical elephant.
• Kangaroos are genetically similar to humans. Barbecued 'roo is so delicious.
• GM crops to be grown in secret to prevent sabotage -- from rival corporations no doubt, not just from environmental activists.
• UK Big Brother database now holds DNA of more than one million children.
• New research finds Dutch Calvinists notice embedded visual patterns quicker than their atheist compatriots.
• Unhappy people watch more tv. But news anchors are always smiling.
• Video: the extraordinary ability of lost pets to find their way home.
• More video: episode 1 of the New Zealand UFO files.
• It's the 30th anniversary of NZ's famous Kaikoura UFO sighting, and the crew of the plane at the centre of the encounter plan to recreate their flight on Dec 30th.
• New Phoenix Lights witness reluctantly comes forward.

Cheers Kat.

Quote of the Day:

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell