A gang of hippies has been spreading their dangerous message all over Commercial Drive.

Even more strange, the song was actually written in 1893, and used and reprinted in numerous places. The copyright should have expired in the early 20th Century according to the laws of the time. However, it was republished and recopyrighted in 1935, after the original copyright should have expired. Under the new copyright laws, which have been extended to 95 years, the copyright will not expire until 2030.

At least that's what the prospector is claiming, and he wants $12 million in damages, because that is apparently the going rate for green crystalline alien lifeforms from other worlds. The government is skeptical, and seems to be going with the defence that the prospector is as crazy as an outhouse rat.

Play the Megamillions lottery simulator, and lose imaginary money! I played, and won $89. However, I spent $1040 to do so.

In the 16740315 times this simulation has run, players have won $26978323

And by won I mean they have won back $26978323 of the $16740315 they spent (161%).

Normally, UFO stuff is not my thing, but this is being reported by Reuters:

Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby.

How did they know they malfunctioned? Do nuclear missiles actually do things while they are sitting around awaiting launch? Clean up around the silo, that sort of thing?

Still, it's comforting to know that the little green men have a magic Cancel Nuclear Holocaust button. Why don't they just give those out to everyone?

The first two minutes are probably the most boring video ever shot. The next 5 minutes are the most incredible footage I have ever seen.

Some dude has invented this. No, seriously.

Some choice quotes from the patent:

• The key to this form of intelligence is predicting the future.
• The time machine is an emulated virtual world of the real world. It is equivalent to the "computer generated dream world" in the Matrix movie or the "Holodeck" in Star Trek.
• For example, if the robot was playing a first-person shooting game like Contra...
• The robots can also predict Super Bowl 89
• In less than one second the robot is able to find a cure for cancer. No physical work has been done to find a cure. Within this one second the robot has a pdf file in his home computer that outlines the cure for cancer. The entire human race for the last 100 years can't find a cure for cancer and yet this machine was able to find a cure in less than 1 second.
• The robot will solve the crime in less than one second. No investigation is required or no interrogation of suspects is required.
• There is no prior art that relates to robots that have psychic abilities.

Of course this is filed as a software patent, thus proving that not all software patents are obvious and that software patents can genuinely foster innovation. The patent was filed in 2008, and should expire sometime around 2028 if you were thinking of building your own cancer-curing, crime-solving, psychic robot time travellers before then.