Opinion Dominion

It's well and truly spring in Brisbane, with temperatures of around 30 degrees due over the weekend. This sunflower was grown in our bac...

I have been to Tokyo, but missed these establishments while I wandered the back alleys of Akihabara looking at gadgets and cameras. To quote...

Queensland continues to be run by lawyers who seemingly refuse to accept that the legal system should have an interest in truth, not just pr...

I've mentioned before the possible mind altering effect of toxoplasma, the bug that is carried by cats. (The suggestion being that, jus...

In all of the news reports about Israel continuing operations in Gaza at the moment, few bother to give this bit of detail about the backgro...

Another discouraging story of a foreign trained doctor (a surgeon) in Queensland being "out of his depth" was reported today in th...

With the recent deaths of Bob Denver and now Don Adams, I would be a little worried if I were the next aging 60's sitcom star with a hea...

BBC NEWS | Business | World Bank rediscovers inequality This story (linked above) is interesting and important, but (as far as I can see fro...

A good news story from the Economist about targetting government spending to help the very poor is here . Of particular note is the "ca...

The New Yorker: The Critics: Books Every week I am enjoying the book reviews in the New Yorker. Here's another good one - this time abou...

Magic fell from his fingertips, but my old boss is now sick [September 26, 2005] In the interview above, Julia said "To have taken Labo...

The Australian: Masked gunmen murder teachers [September 26, 2005] See link to another appalling incident of internal terrorism in Iraq....

Tel Aviv ignores Hamas' initiative to cease attacks on Israeli targets From a pro-Palestinian news site, the above link starts like this...

First Undersea Restaurant See the above link for a short story and a nice pic of an undersea restaurant in the Maldives (just opened in ...

My dog. Not the best pic, what with the shadow and all. But she seems to be smiling...

As you might expect, Clarke & Dawe's take on Latham is an instant classic. See it here if you missed it last night. (I heard it r...

Salon.com Technology | Ask the pilot Speaking of "Ask the Pilot", as I did in the last post, I have now seen his article (link abo...

How Do You Dump Fuel From a Plane? - Just turn on your fuel dumping system. An aviation term that I didn't fully understand is dealt wit...

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Pregnancy test link to frog fall The link above contains this bit of medical history, about which I have never h...

Male weevils give females the gift of youth� Insects slow down their consorts' biological clocks. You can't help but like a science ...