Opinion Dominion

I am happy to admit that I was completely unmoved by Rudd’s farewell press conference, which many people have called “emotional” and “hard t...

There’s an interesting report here in the Christian Science Monitor about those (alleged) Russian spies arrested in America using steganogr...

Found via Tigerhawk, here’s something I don’t recall ever seeing before in a political ad:  good natured humour.  What an innovation!

“This man” being M. Night Shyamalan, a one hit wonder whose career success rate can’t take any steeper trend downwards; it’s been in freefal...

Per-Capita Emissions Rising in China Carbon dioxide emissions per person in China reached the same level as those in France last year, the ...

I never cared for his work anyway, but I think we can safely say that if these recordings are true, Mel Gibson will never likely “do lunch”...

Well, that's handy. I've added to the blogroll James' Empty Blog , which has the pretty unique feature of covering my interests...

This is a product that does address an actual problem which has bothered me many times: fitting all those different plugs and transformers ...

I have to admit to a certain admiration for the chutzpah of the mix of the religious and the scientific in this fraud from Korea : A So...

I came home the other night to find my son watching Avatar on DVD. I watched 10 minutes or so of alien action, and came away not so impress...

Greg Sheridan thinks this : JULIA should have made Kevin foreign minister already. Well, I hope some of the Tony Abbott mental health...

Griff Rhys Jones' series "The Greatest Cities in the World" has done New York and London, and I thought they were a little dul...

The rise of the new agnostics. - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine I really like this article in which Rosenbaum argues that the New Atheism...

Humpback survey indicates growing population A recent humpback whale count indicates a recovery in the population of animals migrating alon...

All very large asteroids at risk of hitting Earth should be identified fairly soon: "In a few more years, we'll be able to sa...

A new temperature estimate going back a few million years comes up with this conclusion: "Our findings indicate that CO 2 levels...

Someone has written a book about how introducing rainbow trout to its non-native rivers around the world has (allegedly) been an ecological...

Julia Gillard is undecided as to whether she will have a Twitter account.  Please don’t.

This is just about the silliest thing I have heard a Christian lobby argue: The pornography industry and the Christian conservative lo...

A few items of interest about clean energy: * Technology Review has a pretty balanced report on the German experiment in boosting solar po...