Weirdness
Two items cropped up in my screen in the past 24 hours, further signs that the world has gone crazy.
Reuters is carrying a photo with the following capiton: Brazilian student Cassia Aparecida de Souza, 18, holds her cat Mimi together with what Cassia claims are Mimi's own offsprings born with dog traits last Friday, three months after mating with a neighbour's dog, in the southern Brazilian city of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul state, November 15, 2006. A geneticist from the Passo Fundo University plans to take blood samples from the animals to verify the claim by Cassia and her husband Rogerio that the puppies are part of Mimi's litter of six, of which the three that were born with cat features died soon after birth, leaving the surviving three dog-like offsprings.
Dogs and cats successfully breeding together? Say what?
The second image is a satellite image of an 87,500 sq ft Colonel Sanders, the mascot of U.S. fried-chicken restaurant chain KFC, in the desert in Nevada. KFC claims it is the first brand visible from space.