Here are the news stories that have interested me this evening:

Facebook users suffer viral surge
I don’t like accepting new Facebook applications at the best of times.  Now I’ll be even more careful!

CIA destroyed 92 interview tapes
News about how the CIA treated interview tapes or terror suspects

University quiz team disqualified
The “University Challenge” winners have been disqualified because one member of the team was no longer a student.

I received an invitation the other day to join this facebook group – which promotes the panic buying of carrots on 15th May this year.

Why????

Well, what started as a crazy idea may have caused a shortage of carrots if they hadn’t warned everybody, but with over 170,000 members in the group, this certainly isn’t a secret any longer.

Several news channels have picked up the story and are now telling the world.  There are even plans to turn the carrots into soup, cake and juice and to donate these to the homeless in the South of England.

It amazes me that something that started out as a silly idea, has created such media attention and could turn out to be such a big event.

I’ll be keeping an eye on the calendar to see how it turns out.