Opinion Dominion

Long term readers may recall that, apart from They Might be Giants, my other main pop music interest has been David Byrne and Talking Heads....

I'm not the world's biggest Dr Who fan, but still, I like to comment on it sometimes. This year's Christmas special was, I thoug...

My favourite band, They Might be Giants, spend a lot of time doing kids albums lately, which I don’t usually buy, even though they write som...

It was a couple of years ago that I mentioned I had seen (and then bought) the DVD for the 1999 "movie" of Joseph and the Amazing ...

1. Sega can be played in all sorts of places now (read the comments following this post too: quite witty.) 2. The funniest ads I saw a...

I’ve been looking around The Guardian’s Comment is Free Belief section, and it’s pretty good.  (Generally speaking, I preferred The Guardia...

Oh, that's good. [Sarcasm] Another way in which ocean pH may be a problem: Scientists already know that a drop in ocean pH affects th...

Time for some ocean acidification news. Oysters grown on the West coast of American have been having a hard time.  As this story noted in...

It seems this has been on Youtube for a while, but it just made an appearance on Cute Overload. I reckon it looks remarkably like how you wo...

I recently mentioned Geoffrey Rush as an Australian actor who actually doesn’t bother me.  (He has managed to get through the insidious effe...

Mum gives birth at Geelong McDonald's restaurant

Yes, it's cold in England and much of Europe, and climate change skeptics are poking fun at those who in the last decade predicted the ...

Well, it's good to see my complete puzzlement as to why Disney would chose to make a sequel to Tron is shared by many critics. As Dana ...

Jack Shafer in Slate notes that there has been recent US media attention to the illicit use of nutmeg to get high. He goes into the histor...