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More bad news for the Peak Oil doomsday cult. Russian boffins say they have proved that fossil fuels can be created synthetically by replicating the high pressure, high temperature conditions found in the upper parts of the Earth’s crust.

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And about time, too.

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Be the first on your block….

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So much for Global Warming.

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Hey, it’s all about priorities. Those book deals don’t grow on trees, you know.

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We have the technology. Of course, he’ll never play the violin again….

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And it’s a beautiful house, at that.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

This is well worth buying.

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Ah, yes, the ROUS. We know it well.

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I suspect that this is just an excuse to build a Cool Toy at taxpayer expense.

The XSR, which has done 30,000 nautical miles of testing, can be launched and recovered from a warship and the basic cost is estimated at £1.5 million.

But it is a cool toy.

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A new exhibition at the British Museum is to depict the contentious last Aztec ruler Moctezuma II in a new light that will cast doubt on claims he was a turncoat who handed over his empire without a fight.

Of course, he still presided over an empire built on conquest, oppression, and plenteous human sacrifice.

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Considering the sort of culture and government under which Spanish-speaking peoples tend to suffer, I find it entirely understandable that they might think themselves afflicted with blood-sucking malevolent spirits. But that’s me.

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Val Kilmer could not be reached for comment.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Cathy, this one’s for you.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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The charts are especially interesting.

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Using a CMOS sensor to take almost instant readings, the vein scanner is deadly accurate — the chances of it authorizing the wrong person are a million to one.

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A series of marking found etched in the Stirling Heads, a set of carvings in one of Scotland’s largest castles, may be 16th century harp music, according to academics.

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A study in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology finds that many more animals have appendixes than was thought, and that the appendix is not merely a remnant of a digestive organ called the cecum. All of which means that the appendix might not be so useless.

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Can he use a litter box? Can he clean himself? That’s the key.

Gotta love Australians.

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Let’s hope they didn’t put it on 8″ floppies.

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I’ve been wondering when somebody would catch on to this.

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Check it out.

Gotta love Australians.

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Macabre but cool.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Stefan Gatward has been inserting a missing apostrophe into road signs, observes Harry de Quetteville. Is he a terrorist or a freedom fighter? Vigilante of the virgule or Keeper of the comma?

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It doesn’t pack people in like sardines, so some hippy organization somewhere is going to condemn it is “not ecologically sustainable.”

But it does look kinda cool.

So what happens if you get stuck in one with someone who decides to rob you?

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Bhut Jolokia, the world’s hottest chilli, could be used in hand grenades by Indian security forces to control rioters and fight insurgents.

Curried rioters. Yeah, that works.

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And it was probably George W Bush’s vault. Or Sarah Palin’s, I keep forgetting.

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I’d be astonished if one for the American market weren’t in development.

The Hog comes clean.

When I started getting into tools, I got myself a big pump jar full of Gojo, because ordinary soap is useless on the kind of greasy dirt you pick up from working on machinery. And the Gojo did not work very well. In the old days, it was great. It took just about anything off, and you didn’t even need to add water to it. It was miraculous. So I was disturbed to see that the new stuff didn’t do the job.

Finally, I pinpointed the likely culprits. Hippies. Who else routinely removes great products from the marketplace? I knew the old Gojo was full of scary chemicals. The new stuff says “natural” on the bottle, and “natural,” like “eco-friendly,” is often a synonym for “more expensive yet totally ineffective.” Like the pathetic pyrethrin-based bug sprays South Florida insects cackle at. I don’t know what the hippies didn’t like about the petroleum-based chemicals in Gojo, but they must have found fault with them, because Gojo is worthless now. I will never buy it again. I also tried Zep, and it’s also worthless.

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Anyone who has encountered people with tattoos who ride motorcycles appreciates that this process hasn’t progressed far enough.

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Hey, I didn’t pick the headline.

“This test demonstrates that the Airborne Laser can fully engage an in-flight missile,” said Boeing jumbo-blaster veep Michael Rinn. “Pointing and focusing a laser beam on a target that is rocketing skyward at thousands of miles per hour is no easy task, but the Airborne Laser is uniquely able to do the job.”

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A bike, with computer-like intelligence, which can never be stolen and has puncture-proof tyres could be in everyday use by 2029, says British Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman.

I suppose Olympic cyclists don’t mind getting mud all over them, which would explain the lack of fenders.

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Natural gas from shale formations is the new magic phrase in the oil and gas industry, as new technologies have led to stunning increases in potential resources and anticipated profits.

Now, this is the New York Times, so it needs to be confirmed from a reliable source.

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