Armagedd - un

I'm still very busy at work, organising the sale of the business, and won't be blogging much over the next few weeks. Time is ticking, and there is a huge amount to be sorted by 1st September. However, I'm never too busy to notice that we nearly all died today :-

From Boing Boing

A very large asteroid flew a mere 270,000 miles from Earth's surface today, just a tad farther than our moon. But then 2004-XP14 read the bumper sticker on Earth's backside which read, "Get any closer and I'll fart!," so the asteroid veered off. And here we are, all of us, unsmashed -- for now.

Snip from Globe and Mail story:

More than three dozen asteroids have flown closer to Earth in the past few years, but scientists believe 2004 XP14 is among the largest. The asteroid, discovered in 2004, is estimated to be up to 800 metres wide based on its brightness. Late Sunday and early Monday, it was expected to be visible as a small moving dot to amateur sky watchers with good telescopes in North America and as a fainter object in Europe. Its closest approach was over the U.S. West Coast.