You know you need more. A SUV was never gonna cut it. But now your car is here. Shadow Hawk Vehicles have even replaced the SUV designation with STV - Super Terrain Vehicle. And this thing is big enough and hard enough to make even a nerd look like Rambo. Shadow Vehicles are releasing just 12 of these babies per year and each one will be only built upon order. The lucky purchaser will get to choose from several configurations, like the Steel Hawk, Street Hawk, Terra Hawk, Battle Hawk, Desert Hawk and Armor Hawk -  all suited to different terrain and conditions.

Some of us stumble across some whacky sport on YouTube and sit there marvelling at the madness of it. Others drag their ass out the door, fly a couple of thousand miles and try it for themselves. That's the difference between you and two (slightly mad) Irishmen. Think bull surfing in India, sumo wrestling in Japan, camel racing in the Sultanate of Oman and horn-sleighing in Germany. And no, horn-sleighing is not some twisted fetish.

Darth Vader may have suffered from a mental illness. Scientists in France have said that Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader in Star Wars was the result of borderline personality disorder. Eric Bui, a psychiatrist at Toulouse University Hospital, has just completed a paper titled "Is Anakin Skywalker suffering from borderline personality disorder?" The paper is to be published in the next edition of the journal Psychiatry Research.

It's half time on the long road to the biggest present giving season in the year - Christmas. So it seems apt to have a good laugh at the honesty of spoilt brats. If there's one thing you can say about a brat, it's that their honest. We've all been there - opening up the present to find a useless, horrible, naff, awful, insulting, demeaning, unwanted and just-plain-wrong present.