After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).  ------ Albert Einstein, one of the great creatives, said "Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created." The arts, particularly through metaphor, provides a different framework in which to explore and solve problems. ------ McDonalds has offered to pay hip hop artists to incorporate the Big Mac into their song lyrics.The fast food chain will pay rappers up to £2.80 every time a song namechecking the burger is played. McDonalds said the US deal reflected the appeal of hip hop to young people. Everyone remember McDonalds TV commercial whose cast only featured negroes?  ------ The Sydney Harbour Bridge contains just 16 nuts and bolts. The rest is held together by rivets.  ------ Long term bed rest has the same effect on the bodys muscles as the zero gravity experienced in space.  ------ Porn users in Australia are more than twice as likely as the rest of the population to vote Green, a study suggests.  ------ Kopi luwak coffee, the most expensive blend in the world at £420 per kg, is made from beans partially digested and then excreted by civet cats in Sumatra.  ------ A select group of people can nearly always tell when someone is lying, In a study of 13,000 people, 31 had the ability.  ------ Since the 11 September terrorist attacks in the US, the UK has frozen the assets of more than 100 terror groups and individuals, netting an estimated £500,000 to £1m  ------ Supermarket chain bans egg sales to teens for a yob-free Halloween.A spokesman said. This time we wont be selling eggs to children under 16. obviously we will use our discretion: If they are also buying bacon and a loaf of bread then we will not stop them. ------ Sweat is made up of salt, water and urea – exactly the same as urine but in different quantities. ------ If all of the US prison population was in one place it would be the fourth largest city in America. ------ There are 206 deaths in Saving Private Ryan. ------ Every two hours a train in the US hits a person or vehicle. ------ Packaging accounts for one sixth of what we spend on food. ------ Making the average PC requires 10 times the weight of the product in chemicals and fossil fuels. ------  UK supermarket chains hand out 17 billion plastic bags each year - enough to cover Sussex and Surrey. ------ The Worst Homing Pigeon The bird was released in Pembrokeshire in June 1953 and was expected to return to its base later that evening. It was returned by post in a cardboard box dead eleven years later from Brazil ------ Four years ago, Bhutan, the fabled Himalayan Shangri-la, became the last nation on earth to introduce television. Suddenly a culture, barely changed in centuries, was bombarded by 46 cable channels. And all too soon came Bhutan s first crime wave - murder, fraud, drug offences. ------ Gary, Indiana is the murder capital of the U.S. - probably the world ------ It is illegal to get fish drunk in Oklahoma ------ There is a town in Texas called "Ding Dong" ------ It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona ------ Salt Lake City, Utah has a law against carrying an unwrapped ukulele on the street ------ California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named "Jesus Christ" ------ In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die ------