Sneak happened to wander into a cinema the other day and find himself watching a film called Cloverfield.

For those readers who are still getting round to watching Three Men and a Baby at the cinema, Cloverfield is about a monster who is annoyed about being disturbed from its marine slumber. So it does what any right-thinking underworld creature would do, and starts smashing to pieces the nearest thing to it - in this case New York.

A well known scaredy-cat, Sneak immediately shelved any water-based plans he had, including flushing the loo, for fear of raising the ire of any other evil water dwellers.

If only others were so sensible. Hot on the heels of the mysterious undersea cable cutting incidents, reports have since emerged that Google and five other companies are building a new undersea connection to boost internet capacity between the United States and Asia.

The fibre optic cable will run between Los Angeles and Chikura, off the coast of Tokyo. Don’t Google and chums realise they’re asking for trouble, choosing the birthplace of that other well-known water dweller Godzilla as the site for their very expensive new cabling?

28 Feb 2008