There was absolutely nothing Ho Ho Ho about the letters Rosalyn Da Costa’s children got from Santa yesterday.

In fact, they included filthy messages.

They are two of 10, inappropriate letters dropped in mailboxes across Ottawa in the last two days, but there could be more.

Yesterday, Canada Post shut down its Write To Santa program across the city while it joins Ottawa police to hunt down the “rogue elf.”

“Everybody here is so shocked,” said Canada Post spokeswoman Cindy Daoust. “Disappointed doesn’t begin to describe how we feel.”

Each Santa letter Canada Post delivers contains the same main message with a hand-written personal postscript.

Maya’s personal “P.S.” said: “This letter is too long, you dumb s—.”

The personal P.S. to Colton’s letter read: “Your mom sucks d— and your Dad is gay”

Dressed in his signature red shirt, black pants, and black Nike golf shoes, Woods—who has not played competitive golf in three months in order to stay at home and spend time with his newborn daughter—followed the clutch 12-foot putt with a celebratory fist pump before hugging caddie Steve Williams, who was handling the baby’s skin ointment.

Once more displaying his uncanny ability to stay focused even in the most high-pressure situations, Woods did not let his infant’s multiple shrieks distract him, calmly stepping away from his squalling baby daughter three times before executing the putt.

Scenes from the Bible have been imagined by countless artists over the centuries, but never quite like this. God’s Eye View portrays four key Biblical events as if captured by Google Earth. Above, The Crucifixion.

It’s the work of Sydney-based “creative collective” The Glue Society. The project was commissioned by Eric Romano of Pulse Art, New York for its Miami art fair. Romano had seen the group’s Hot with a Chance of a Late Storm installation (below), a comment on global warming in which a melting ice cream van oozed across the promenade and onto the sand at Tamarama in Australia last year as part of Sydney’s Sculpture by the Sea event, and commisssioned them to create this new work.

God’s Eye View depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden,

Noah’s Ark

And Moses parting the Red Sea

a compelling split-screen infographic animation that tells both sides (in reversed visual styles) of the story of Earth’s origins in a provocative journey through human history & language.

while also enjoyable separately, the trick is to see both movies in parallel, either below each other (try to start both youtube movies simultaneously), or side-by-side on the duelity website.

As if I needed another distraction … enter the Human Brain Cloud.

Although billed as multi-player, HBC is really an individual exercise—one that can quickly turn minutes into hours. You see a word or short phrase from the 530,000 already suggested by other players, and you enter the first response that enters your head. Although you type alone, you benefit from the wisdom of the masses. The word associations you make are scanned for matches and listed with the rest of your recent work. You can view the cloud, which is really a visual thesaurus kind of weighted network showing the connections to a given term.

The Force must be strong with these geeks. (It would have to be.) This is an actual, working Star Wars X-Wing, built by the San Diego Tripoli Rocket Association. Of course, in this context “actual” means it exists and “working” means it’s able to get off the ground. At 23 feet long, it’s impressive but not the kind of craft you’d want to take into battle against a Death Star. Sure, the R2-D2 beeps, but the laser cannons don’t work.

Greenpeace is making its first attempt to get lads to go eco-friendly with a risqué viral ad featuring men and women who literally have light shining out of their rear ends.

The viral ad, which features a voiceover by The Office and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy star Martin Freeman, aims to get the “lads’ mag” audience of 16- to 24-year-old men to think about energy-efficient light bulbs.

Greenpeace’s 45-second ad, made by production company Park Village and agency Escape Partners, features people illuminating everyday situations by dropping their pants and providing a spotlight beamed out their backsides.

In one scene a man aims the beam from a lightbulb in his posterior under a car bonnet so a friend can fix an engine.

Freeman’s voiceover finishes with the line, “Until the sun shines out of your arse, use an energy-efficient light bulb instead”.

The viral ad will be seeded on websites and blogs to target markets including the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Head feminist “Buck” McGowan leads a march on Washington for women’s rights.

WASHINGTON—After decades spent battling gender discrimination and inequality in the workplace, the feminist movement underwent a high-level shake-up last month, when 53-year-old management consultant Peter “Buck” McGowan took over as new chief of the worldwide initiative for women’s rights.

“And don’t get me started on how disorganized and scatterbrained their old fundraising methods were,” McGowan added. “Let’s just say the movement never really had a head for numbers.”

Having gained a certain degree of expertise in developing and designing its own energy efficient data centers, Google thinks it’s in a position to help spur on the adoption of even more renewable energy sources.

The company says it will be also be looking to hire engineers, and partner with various entrepreneurs and technologists with expertise in a broad range of areas, including: materials science, physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, land acquisition and management, power transmission and substations, construction, and (of course) regulatory issues.

Some of the biggest actors in Hollywood are to support striking writers in a series of internet downloads due to debut today.

The cast list for the 21 spots, which range in length from a few seconds to several minutes, reads like a who’s who of liberal Hollywood. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Martin Sheen and Ed Asner have all been filmed, and are joined by members of the casts of hit TV shows including Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty.

Titled Speechless, the short spots echo Warhol’s famous Screen Tests, which featured iconic figures of the late 60s filmed in black and white simply doing nothing. The inactivity of Warhol’s subjects, who ranged from Salvador Dalí to Susan Sontag, accentuated the intimacy of film and, in some cases, the discomfort of the subject.

 The question of who has metaphysical jurisdiction in virtual worlds is not one so carefully addressed in Amsterdam as police have arrested a virtual criminal. In the Netherlands, at least, theft is theft and has real-world consequences.

In this case, it’s the arrest of a 17-year-old and the questioning of four 15-year-old accomplices.

They’re crime: Stealing virtual furniture and putting it in their own virtual pads at the Habbo Hotel.

Just like in Second Life, Habbo has its own virtual economy, and the furniture was worth nearly $6,000, according to a Reuters report.

And teenagers being teenagers are especially likely to misunderstand the concept of consequences, real world or virtual. Sulake, the parent company of Habbo Hotel boasts 80 million users, all trading in virtual currency that can be traded for “real” money.

But one thing’s for certain, the Dutch police aren’t wasting time debating lofty concepts like metaphysical jurisdiction. These teenagers are facing real penalties. 

Captain Kirk and his crew may someday be followed on their travels across the universe at warp speed by the rest of us. If scientists meeting for a one-day international conference next week have their way, the starship Enterprise’s warp drive will no longer be the stuff of science fiction but a viable means of travelling vast distances at faster than the speed of light.

So what then, was the ultimate value of the ground-breaking album and its test of the constraints of the digital age? Around Ł2.90, it would seem.

Research revealed yesterday that a mere 38% of people downloading the album were willing to part with anything at all. Two thirds paid only the 45p charge for handling, according to ComScore, a digital measurement group.

It is a central tenet of creationism that evolutionary biologists are part of a vast conspiracy. Should evidence emerge that runs counter to Darwin’s theories, creationist thinking goes, it is quickly suppressed by the scientific thought police.

Now retired chemist Homer Jacobson may have inadvertently lent the conspiracy theorists a helping hand. The trouble started when Jacobson, formerly at Brooklyn College in New York, did a web search for his own name. Among the top results were creationist websites. They cited a 1955 paper on the origin of life, in which Jacobson discussed the challenges of explaining how the chemical building blocks of life emerged. Creationists say his paper shows that divine intervention must have been involved.

A fight broke out and the pensioner was knocked to the ground and punched and kicked before other passers-by, including an off-duty police officer, intervened.