Willie Sutton, uttered that famous line after a long career of bank robberies a century or so ago. He would have loved the Internet.
This topic was first written about in January over Internet click-through ads. I said that unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Now with [...]

The most spectacular opening ceremony of a modern Olympiad is in the bag. 15,000 in the cast. Synchronised fireworks, drumming and dancing wowed an audience of 4 billion globally on the telly. A remarkable festival of colours and digital effects combined with movements that took a year to rehearse under what had to have been [...]

This line was uttered by Marlin the Daddy clownfish searching for his son in the film ‘Finding Nemo’ when he comes to the realisation that the light in the depths of the ocean he has been dreamily following is the lure of an Anglerfish. Barack Obama must feel the same way when a YouTube video of [...]

By Charley James
John McCain keeps talking about making the US “energy independent.” Yet Robert Bryce – an energy industry expert and author of the new book <i>Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of ‘Energy Independence’</i>, points out that it will be impossible for America to be energy independent with current technology. McCain says nuclear energy [...]

…ABBA is back!  (Waterloo plays instead of Jaws ominous duh-dum theme…)
After a 16-year absence, they hold this week’s number 1 spot on the UK Pop chart thanks to the sleeper hit movie of the summer – Mama Mia!
Created from the West End and Broadway stage musical where a young woman invites three men one of [...]

It begins with one whose ambition gets ahead of him or herself. Like the proverbial drip, drip, drip of the tiniest hole in the dyke, Labour front bench cabinet ministers sat silently for the first few moments of Gordon Brown’s holiday and then one-by-one began to stick toes or more in to test the waters [...]

It isn’t Alien vs. Predator, but it’s close. You thought that this summer’s blockbuster was Batman? Hancock? Kung Fu Panda? Nope. This summer the talking media heads have had little real work, so making it up as they go along seems the way to go.
We’ve seen befuddled AARP poster child John McCain’s repeated flip-flops, dumb [...]

by Dorret Groot Wassink
The favourite question of a four year old is why?
Why is the earth round? Why is the sky blue? Why does the sun shine? Why does it rain? Why? Why? Why?
And no matter how clear the answer seems, real ‘why’ questions cannot be answered. Our mind can’t deal with questions that are [...]

Remember that rainy day you were saving for Gordon and George? Well it’s pouring.
While Senator Barack Obama was looking humble and presidential this week during his world tour, it was a week President George Bush and his party’s presumptive nominee and hopeful successor John McCain along with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown who was handed [...]

This is a rugged coastal community on the Firth of Clyde, overlooking the Isle of Bute with the jagged crags of the Isle of Arran in the distance is a place where if your surname is discovered to be Campbell, you are treated coolly at best and with open hostility at worse. So this week [...]