Sideswipe

Friday's flyer from a machine-gun firing range in Las Vegas prompted a reader to send a link to Thunderware, maker of quality gun holsters, which sells a ladies' thong designed to carry and conceal hand guns even under a pair of skimpy Daisy Dukes, like the model shown above. (Source: Boingboing.net)

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Reader John Moran witnessed something on Friday that left him gobsmacked. He writes: "I work at a school as a property manager and after playtime today I saw a black cat with a piece of bread in its mouth. The cat carefully placed the bread on the ground fairly close to a 200mm high fence dividing our bark playground surface from a concrete area. The cat then laid low behind the fence in a shadow line, while peeping through a small gap at his piece of bread. After a few minutes, a couple of sparrows swooped in to feast on the bread when the cat pounced, and I last saw the feline heading home with a fat sparrow in his jaws. Not a bad swap I thought, a piece of dried up old crust for a juicy, meaty lunch."

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A Dubai salesman tried to fleece a money exchanger in the United Arab Emirates by using an identity card with the picture of Brad Pitt. The 29-year-old Jordanian had been told by his brother, who worked at the Dubai money exchange, that more than $23,000 in cash had been transferred to the bureau for a client who hadn't showed to pick it up. The brother then forged an ID using the client's name and downloaded a photo from the internet. The man told police he did not know whose picture he had downloaded.

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Workers in a downtown office block are wondering if a "Skunkworks-style" aeronautical design company may be secretly based across the street from them. Each day workers make their way to the roof of the building and throw a collection of paper darts from the tenth floor down onto Lorne St. One of them has even perfected a model that can achieve prodigious feats of acrobatics. The Air Force could do worse than hire these boy-men to start work on the next generation of high-performance aircraft.

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NBA caves in to animal rights evangelists PETA: For the first time in 35 years the official game ball will not be made from beaten cow carcass, but from a microfibre composite. The ball is manufactured by Spalding and will be in shops in the US by October.