StrangeSights

• It’s the latest in underground bunkers. Designed for the family looking to escape “the next earth devastating catastrophe, terrorist or nuclear attack”, an American company known as Vivos has unveiled its intention building a series of 20 underground complexes, each of which has been designed to autonomously house up to 200 people for a year. The complexes are designed as a wheel system with a central hub in which families can meet and socialise and spokes in which private living quarters are located. The company, whose website has a clock counting down the days to December 21, 2012 - the date that the Mayan calendar predicts the world will end, says it’s already had 1,000 applications for its first nuclear blast shelter located in California. The cost of buying a place in the new complexes has been reported at $US50,000.

• Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is getting the Twitter treatment. The UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company has teamed up with mobile phone content producer Mudlark to provide a version of the play in which actors are improvising their tweets based on the original play. The actors are also being encouraged to interact with the audience as well as each other. You can join in here: www.suchtweetsorrow.com.

• The Isles of Scilly, off the south-west coast of the UK, may only have nine miles of ‘proper’ road. But that hasn’t stopped the local constabulary from getting their hands on a speed camera to stop anyone who might even be thinking of hooning. But an arrest may be some way off - the highest speed reportedly clocked so far as been 34mph.

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