God's Yellow Pages

As Christmas celebrations hit fever pitch and shopping becomes a frenzy, today's site brings the true spirit of the season back home. 'God's Yellow Pages' lets your fingers do the walking...through the Bible. Providing an A- Z guide to virtue and vice, the site gives guidance and temperance during this festival of indulgence.

If the mistletoe dangling over the head of an inebriated co-worker at the office party is hard to resist, then look up T for Temptation, and James 4:7: 'Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.' Back to the mini bar anyway.

If you were expecting the Sony Wii under the tree this year and instead got a jumper with a downhill Skier on it, ditch that disappointment and check out Timothy 6:7-12: 'We brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.'

But don't worry, its not all thrift and personal restraint. What could be more apt at this time of the year than Luke 12:19: 'Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.'

Amen.

Irish UFOs

The X Files may have long left our screens but the world of the paranormal continues to intrigue. Flying saucers and stories of extraterrestrial phenomena are still found all over the world.

Today's site is hosted by the Irish UFO society and brings together a smorgasbord of reputed abductees, enthusiasts and UFO sightings. In 1997 a brightly coloured orb reputedly crashed in the Curlew Mountains near Boyle in County Roscommon. Days later, black cars with tinted windows were reported nearby while helicopters hovered overhead. To this day local authorities deny any knowledge of such events.

And it's not just a modern day phenomenon. A dossier on UFOs kept by the Irish Defence Forces for 37 years was recently released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The dossier reports a UFO sighting near Cashel, Co. Tipperary in 1984. It was 'the same shape as a fried egg' and had 'some kind of an aerial on top', local teenager Conor Dwyer insisted.

Another was spotted in Donegal by a farmer who heard 'a gushing sound'. Looking up, he saw an object travelling at speed and shaped like a 'household iron with fins'.

Who could resist the lure of extra terrestrial life shapeshifting into domestic appliances? This Christmas, if Santa arrives on a souped up hoover, you'll know it's a case for Mulder and Scully.

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