check out this youtube video showing a test drive for the fastest production car in the world - the bugatti veyron:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO0PgyPWE3o

absolutely incredible!

I read a story in Jan 08 about a trail of plastic garbage in the Pacific Ocean that was hundreds of miles long! Check it out here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

Appalling what mankind does to the environment. I read an environmentalist saying "we don't deserve this planet". After reading some of the stories about the types of environmental damage we inflict on Mother Earth, I have to agree.

There's an assortment of these types of stories available - just google. Also check out what we're doing here at home in the oil fields of Alberta:

http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20071008_110103_110103&source=srch

I appreciate that the oil sands in Fort McMurray are the current economic engine of Canada, but it makes you think at what cost.

I don't consider myself a strong advocate for "conspiracy theories" but the two videos from:

http://www.zeitgeistmovies.com/

are the most interesting videos I have ever seen.

They're long in duration (+ 2 hrs each) but I totally recommend watching them both, if only in bits and spurts.