The Scotsman, which is always a good read (although I really can't forgive that awful picture!), has another biography of a famous Scottish Wizard, the twelfth century Michael Scott. Scott, one of the most highly educated men of the Middle Ages, had a fearsome reputation as a magician who could split mountains and change the course of rivers.

A Seattle theater-reviewer ventures into his local OTO Lodge to witness a performance of the Rite of Horus.

The Virgin Mary has apparently decided a tree belonging to a casino is not sufficient housing, and dropped in to visit a new tree in the Philippines. Meanwhile, Italian police are investigating a weeping Mary statue, and doctors have made inexplicable conclusions about a bleeding portrait in a village church in Russia. It seems hardly worth mentioning yet another appearance in the clouds that will inevitably end up for sale on Ebay.

With the release of the new Da Vinci Code movie immanent, Catholics have stepped up their demands for a disclaimer label declaring the movie fiction (and presumably, preserving the "truth" that Jesus died and became God without getting married first, and that the Gnostic gospels were a bunch of counterfit hooey rightly dismissed by the Church in its eternal wisdom...) (More Da Vinci Code stories in our forum)

Nike's newest (and probably strangest) new product: the Sporty hijab.