Aphrodite revisited

Greece is pretty quiet news-wise as the phone-tapping scandal continues to dominate the national news.

Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, is to have a new representation - Kate Moss is to be immortalized in marble as "a kind of Aphrodite figure of our age." Marc Quinn is working on five life-size bronzes of the supermodel in contorted yoga positions with her feet behind her ears. Quinn is best known for his 12ft marble sculpture of a naked Alison Lapper, who was born without arms and with shortened legs. Moss was interviewed by police last week over allegations of cocaine use.

A drug dealer is languishing in Utah County Jail after reporting the theft of his stash to police. He rang the cops to complain that someone had broken into his home and made off with the "quarter-pound of marijuana he had been trying to sell". Police arrested a suspect found in possession of the stolen drugs then asked the owner of the drugs to pop down and identify his property. He duly did so. And was cuffed for his trouble. As a police officer commented, "Even the dumb criminals are generally smarter than this.”

And going back to mobile phones, pigeons in California are to be fitted with a backpack consisting of a mobile-phone, GPS and camera so they can monitor the weather. Bird-brained? We’ll see.

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