Category: In the News

  • Clarkson may have a lot of fans thanks to his great sense of humour and a taste for fast cars (and his big hair), but he’s apparently not pleasing everyone. Thankfully, Jeremy was a good sport and was heard to…

  • George W. Bush may be an idiot, but it appears Google also believes him to be a failure. Ok, great, we all could’ve expected the negative coverage over the years to rate him quite high on such a word in…

  • Keith Olberman, of MSNBC : “[M]ost chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection — or at least amelioration — against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological. It has just proved that it…

  • Apple’s new babies are born! The iPod Hybrid phone has made a lot of ink run. Rokr is developed by Motorola and can hold 100 songs, which are managed in a lite version of iTunes. It’s a bit of a…

  • Following the uncanny truth of the first set of Rules of Advertising, from the Beebs’ website, more readers have added their favourite “Life According to the Adverts World” observations. Some are pure gold… All dogs are happy and stupid. All…

  • Not to put down the events in New Orleans at all, but while the Americans are causing such a media noise over the events, is anyone realising China is dealing with deadly typhoons and that further ones are hitting Japan,…

  • Over the past few days, my thoughts have been with the victims of the Katrina hurricane over in New Orleans, of which 80% is sitting under water. The topic has been unavoidable when speaking to my family in Canada, who…

  • BBC News has gone mad. Why should the world know about Ms Morris’s cat’s puke?? Slow day for the newsroom… Moral of the story: Be careful what you feed your cat.

  • No one can deny advertising lives off of stereotypes. The past few years, men have really taken a beating in advertising, usually being shown in a rather unflattering light. “Men are tired of their portrayal in advertising, according to a…

  • There were rumours, there were whispers, now it’s here. Google Talk may be fashionably late in an already busy online voice chat world, but by working on principles different to the other IM/VoIP systems, it might already be winning the…