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Mysterious tiles have been turning up all over the U.S. They are size of license plates, embedded in the street and all say the same thing: “Toynbee idea in Kubrick’s 2001, Resurrect dead on planet Jupiter.”

Doug Worgul writes in the Kansas City Star that he first spotted one in his home town in 1996 (and it’s still there today). He did some internet research and found that there have been more than 130 of these “Toynbee tiles” seen in at least 20 cities around the United States (and two in South America). In New York, around 50 tiles have been found, and in Philadelphia, nearly 30. Twenty have been spotted in Baltimore, 16 in Washington, D.C.
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Ever wish you could personally go after the people who are sending you all that annoying, often disgusting, spam? One person did it.

Michele Delio writes in wired.com that graphic artist Andy Markley discovered that a spammer was sending out hundreds of pieces of spam, using Markley’s domain. His computer mailbox was filled with complaints from people who received the spam.
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Mountaineer Matako Nabuka says there is no Yeti?only the Meti, which is a big brown bear. Despite this, Yeti and his cousin Bigfoot continue to be seen all over the world, including Vermont.

Daniel Lak writes in BBC News Online that Nabuka spent 12 years in Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan looking for the Yeti. He now thinks Yetis are actually the Himalayan brown bear known as the “Meti.”

Explorer Raj Kumar Pandey says, “Look at all the foreign expeditions that have seen [the Yeti]. “We have much more research to do on language and in zoology before we believe statements like this.” Some explorers who’ve seen the creature are U.K. explorers Eric Shipton and John Hunt.
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Al-Qaeda has bought at least 15 ships in the last two years, creating the first terrorist navy since pirates roamed the Caribbean. Lloyds of London has helped Britain’s MI6 and the CIA trace the sales, which were made through a Greek shipping agent suspected of having personal contact with bin-Laden. Right now, the fleet is thought to be in the Indian or Pacific ocean, heading for somewhere in Asia.
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