Sideswipe

Cleavage overkill outside the St James (above): "Isn't this the most brilliant co-ordination of a poster with the building it's on? I mean, surely those awning struts didn't get placed there by accident, did they?" enthuses Grant.

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Anti-nuclear "Armageddonist" memo distributed without proofreading: The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that in preparation for President George W. Bush's visit to a local nuclear reactor, US Greenpeace distributed a fact sheet opposing expansion of nuclear energy and warning of the dangers posed by nuclear reactors.

"This volatile and dangerous source of energy" is no answer to the country's energy needs, the memo read. "In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]."

Unfortunately, the fact sheet - fill-in-the-blank and all - was sent out.

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Ten cats in search of owners will spend the next 10 days in a New York store window, their every move caught on camera for a reality TV show on which they will compete for best sleeper and mouse-catcher. The show is the creation of a petfood company and will be shown on cable channel Animal Planet, as well as on MeowMixHouse.com where viewers will be asked to vote off one contestant each day. The cats, chosen from shelters around the US, will compete for loudest purr, most prolific sleeper and who can catch the most toy mice. Kitties who get the boot will go to permanent homes.

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A Taser stun gun was lost in Sussex by a police officer when he left it on top of his car and drove off. The unnamed officer only realised it was missing when he arrived at his destination.

"Our priority is to recover the weapon as quickly as possible. It could be picked up by a child, who could easily mistake it for a gun. Less likely is that it may fall into criminal hands." (Source: The Guardian)

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Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry has signed into law a bill which redefines a list of items such as hardcore pornography, which are deemed harmful to minors, to include video games which contain inappropriate violence.

This law will affect "any game which lacks serious literary, scientific, medical, artistic or political value and which features glamourised or gratuitous violence; uses that violence to shock or stimulate; features violence that is not contextually relevant to the material; has violence so pervasive that it serves as the thread holding the plot of the material together; trivialises the serious nature of realistic violence; does not demonstrate the consequences or effects of realistic violence; uses brutal weapons designed to inflict the maximum amount of pain and damage; endorses or glorifies torture or excessive weaponry, or depicts lead characters who resort to violence freely."