Opinion Dominion

Indiana Jones Returns, to Steven Spielberg’s Delight - New York Times Getting tired yet of my linking to material on the new Indiana Jones m...

I've never been convinced that the Wachowski brothers deserve respect, and the idea that they could make what I recall as the least int...

Buswell made 'sexual noises': woman | The Australian So, today we get all the detail of the "chair sniffing" incident. Wh...

George Monbiot: If there is a God, he's not green. Otherwise airships would take off | Comment is free | The Guardian Hey, I first menti...

Alternative dares not speak | The Australian Alan Moran writes about Garnaut's interim report, noting that it doesn't mention the ...

Here's a recent paper from arXiv that proposes how naked singularities may form instead of black holes. (My earlier post about naked s...

A few posts back, I indicated I would do some Googling about household electrical storage, so that my future solar Stirling engine powered h...

Dezeen’s top ten: houses Oddly, I found this link via Posthuman Blues. In another life, I would have liked to have been an architect. (Mus...

Dungeons & Austrians - New York Times See the link for an opinion piece that points out that the basement incest case is not the first h...

Mayoral election results: Live | Politics | Guardian Unlimited Of course, with Boris Johnson winning the London mayoral race, over at The Gu...

Growing ocean dead zones leave fish gasping - earth - 01 May 2008 - New Scientist Environment It's all inconclusive as to what will happ...

By far the most annoying, bitter, nasty, know-it-all blogger on the left in the last few years is Ken Lovell at Road to Surfdom. His post t...

I mentioned the Infinia Corporation a year ago, and with all this talk of solar power, I thought it would checking if this alternative id...

Be very afraid: Zoe Williams on the possibility of Boris Johnson as mayor of London Zoe Williams and a bunch of artistes are all in a frenzy...

Harbour death crash witness: 'They wanted to party' - National - theage.com.au The thing that always seems kind of surprising to me ...

Tom Cruise set to make M:I4 The Mission Impossible series has gone like this: M:I1 - Cheesily very enjoyable; that De Palma can really dir...

A question of belief | Comment is free Here's an interesting article on the very real problems that apostates from Islam (threat of deat...

The very sensible Robert Merkel has a very useful post at LP about why government subsidies for solar cell power don't really make much...

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Artists catch head lice for show Clearly, after 100 years or so, it's getting harder and harder to be an avan...

Beer and wine tax rise proposed | The Courier-Mail: A 300 PER CENT increase in beer and wine taxes is being proposed by the Rudd Government...