Daily Planet 12-18

• BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Space cadets taken in by TV hoax

  "Aw man," said Paul. "We're not astronauts. We're just asses."

• Forsman & Bodenfors Girlpower demo

  The media world is becoming increasingly fixated on appearances. And the number of tricks used to achieve the increasingly exaggerated ideals is growing.

• RateMyCow.com - the greatest cow rating site in the developed world

  For obvious reasons "naked" photography is allowed, as cows don't often wear clothes. However no cattle-sex pictures are allowed, nor are gratuitous udder shots. This is a family cattle site!

• REAL OR FAKE? / Choosing a Christmas tree can be an ethical quagmire for environmentalists

  "Some people wanted to call it a 'peace tree' or a 'holiday tree,' " said Mark Westlund, a spokesman for the Department of the Environment. "But we figured that only people who would be celebrating Christmas would want one for the most part."