Here are some of the year’s highlights you probably didn’t hear about. A giant swarm of honeybees emerged from a void in space, and the head of the Dolphin Party ordered a satellite shot down because it was humming far too loudly for the delicate ears of their dolphin subjects. Meanwhile, US president Al Gore won prizes for investing in a new oil rig designed to drill through the ice sheet covering Australia’s frozen outback.
OK, none of that actually happened, at least not here. But in 2007 we had to face up to the possibility that all of this…
