The wrapping paper is in the bin, the holiday decorations are by now all packed away, and you have your shiny new – whatever – to play with. But how long is it likely to last? This is a horrifying concept – planned obsolescence or the deliberate building in to a design or product a [...]

I was reading a fantastic contributed letter to my local newspaper and I thought some of the things mentioned were just awesome! Unfortunately I’m not allowed to reprint the letter here, but have included the link to it below so you can read it online. But the writer has some terrific gift suggestions that are [...]

Regular readers will recall my post on the 2012 “end of days” prophecies. I avoided going to the cinema to watch the movie when it came out but it appeared on free-to-air TV last night so I gave it a watch. Interesting mix of astrology, science, Mayan “prediction”, conspiracy theory and fear-mongering … with some [...]

We hear a lot about rights these days: human rights … animal rights. Particularly after the recent exposure of the barbaric treatment of cattle in an Indonesian abattoir. But there’s another ‘R’ word we don’t hear enough of. Human beings are the most evolved species on the planet. We have been able to infiltrate every [...]

Thanks for the reminder from Savage Garden. Words to live by?