Opinion Dominion

Bruno review: The Current Cinema: The New Yorker My favourite movie reviewer Anthony Lane has written about Bruno . While I have no intere...

Even Gore thinks Rudd goes too far | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog Andrew Bolt promotes skepticism of "clean coal" technology, and h...

I'm currently slowly reading " Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome " by J Balsdon. It's actually a 1969 book, now sold in ch...

From a TLS review of a new book on the Palace of Versailles: Water was in great demand and caused enormous problems. The fountains used up ...

Happy birthday, Nikola Tesla: thanks for the electricity Good to see Nikola Tesla remembered in The Guardian. It's well worth reading u...

Apollo special: Mirrors on the moon - New Scientist A good article about the measurements done by laser on the Earth-Moon distance. Did you ...

It's been an odd feature of the last 20 years of politics here how Labor's view of itself as the "natural" party for bette...

If red wine's good, are resveratrol pills even better? - Los Angeles Times Interesting article on how resveratrol (a potentially health ...

How to ensure lost wallets are returned - Telegraph

Some highlights: * Saturday night ox tail stew. This is a dish for which a pressure cooker is indispensable. A better winter meal (serve...

ADF man robbed of laptop by ladyboy | The Australian THE Australian Defence Force is investigating a potential breach of national security a...

Has there ever been an uglier internet ad than the one for "The Gabriel Method". No, I'm not going to link to it, but you kno...

Buffalo jams 16GB in really tiny USB key

Seems remarkably quiet, comment-wise, around here lately. I do my best to cover the best topics: sex, religion, politics, giant robots, but...

Low-end house prices 'to fall 10pc' | Property | News.com.au The odd thing is, I guess for the first time buyer, government grants t...

Arctic sea ice has thinned by more than 40% in five years, Nasa satellites show

There are two fairly amusing articles of note in Slate. The first: about the Segway and its image problem . Apparently, guided city tours ...

Gundam promotes Tokyo 2016’s Olympic bid (Go to the link to see a photo of said giant robot in Tokyo)

The story of the Marine who wasn't - Los Angeles Times As it happens, I am pretty certain I currently have a client who is a big-time fa...

Hayao Miyazaki, Anime’s Master, to Visit San Diego Comic-Con - NYTimes.com (The article talks about him generally, and his lack of commercia...