Maple syrup mystery still unsolved but theories abound: “Perhaps it makes sense that a citizenry accustomed to strange odors, and inured to foul ones, would detect a sweet one (or one, at least, that they associate with sweetness) and call the authorities. But the fear, such as it was, seemed to give way to a feeling of good fortune, as though we’d been visited by invisible aliens from a planet where breakfast is served twenty-four hours a day—a place, in fact, not unlike this one.”

Addictive mash-up of Madonna’s “Hung Up” with M.I.A.’s “URAQT”.

Thieves make off with Beckham’s bulletproof BMW.

The iPod video has emerged as a supreme medium for conveying infomercials. Adobe’s half-hour program Photoshop TV, an instructional video podcast, is now the second most downloaded podcast on iTunes. It achieved more than 6,200 subscribers in its first 72 hours. Apple recently announced that they sold over a million videos in the video iPod’s first 20 days.

From the corporate intelligence dept: Falls Church, VA, Katy, TX, and Greenwood Village, CO have the highest Starbucks to population ratios in the country.