We need more than one icon for this one - at a minimum the black helicopter, the alien, the exclamation point, and one or more of the satanic CEOs. When someone makes the obligatory 'Paris Hilton angle' joke we're up to 5...

How much work would it be to change the radio buttons into checkboxes?

I'd just like to point out that this story has nothing to do with me. I keep my death rays for blowing up chav scooters...

I reckon it was Boeing's 'relevant battlefield laser' undergoing trials. See? It *does* work.

Perhaps aliens are simply waging a war against the tyranny of domestic appliances which have been fingered by aliens as the dominant lifeform?

Served by a biological slave race, who are brainwashed and instructed through its television priesthood, the machines have spread accross the globe and even into space to spread terror and pop tarts across the cosmos!

...it being Zeus getting lairy and throwing around some thunderbolts. Possibly because they all became Catholics in the first place.

I'm off to sacrifice a bull and bathe in its' blood, just in case our true Lord, the God of Thunder, decides to target my computer next.

Catholicism? This is SPARTAAAA...

"So he's Catholic, but he thinks a sacrifice is necessary ? To what god ?"

Cthulu, I would have thought.

"For Heaven's sake, man, if you say you're a Catholic then you should at least know that the being referred to as God in the Bible has stopped accepting sacrifices since the New Testament at least."

Well more than that, if he says he's a Catholic he should know that it's a monotheistic religion, but apparently he believes in an unspecified but plural number of "the immortal gods".

"We are not saying that little green men from Mars started the fires"

Have you been touring the Italian countryside recently?

After having to postpone her Humanitarian mission to Rwanda, Paris will be making her way to this poor village to offer her support to these suffering people. As a bonus she will also be taping a new session of "A simple Life" - "My life among the pasta eating pagans"

Global Warming people. Global bleedin warming. Well, they blame owt else on that, why not this?

reckons someone's sodded up the electrical supply , after all over-voltage tends to play havoc with anything electrical.

But then that's all so boring compared to satanic, spiritualist, global-warming pseudo science that we all love these days.

Bring on the un-scientific explanations, they are so much more fun !

Someone's fired up an Italian copy of the Z Machine:

http://zpinch.sandia.gov/