JavaOne 2009 is Dead. Long Live JavaOne.Next: Part 2 Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, appeared on stage. He endorsed JavaFX and wants to ... View all

Thanks to Oliver for the links. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article6028030.ece Thoughts for the week: the ... View all

Now that DU has finished for the summer we saw two old teams return to Jordan's last night. Skillz that Killz with team captain Megan and I'm not g ... View all

Today (June 4) sees Oasis play the first of three huge concerts at Heaton Park in Manchester. It’s a bit of a homecoming for the band as the Gal ... View all

As The New Yorker Book Bench wryly points out, Kiri Blakeley's Forbes article on why women buy self-help books contains some annoying stereotypes. But ... View all

This seems to be the confirmation the Tories have been demanding: that spending will be so tight that both the main parties will be forced to impose c ... View all

We will now learn what price the PM paid for loyaltyWell, the dust had settled on the Labour leadership row. But it seems the wind may be getting up a ... View all

That headline up there is a question I hear all the time. No matter how big the gaming industry’s revenues get; no matter how much a hit title ... View all

The architects at Safdie Rabines have designed the Hilltop House in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The home was designed to maximize the 360 degree view ... View all

This is a continuation of a series I’ve been running on the changing face of missions in the 21st Century, click here to read more. I’m not discountin ... View all

By Jimmy Palmiotti This week, a bunch of movies, a tribute or two and some more silliness… as expected. Amanda and I had the pleasure of taking a fu ... View all

When you go to the hairdresser you know there are going to be cuts. Sometimes the cuts may be savage; a short, back and sides. You would not tell the ... View all

It has been awhile since we did the whole guilty pleasures thing. It is hard because, although I get a lot of companies interested in sending me thin ... View all

We did the taste test of all taste tests yesterday. I made Red Velvet cupcakes twice, once with beets for the red color and once with the red dye. I u ... View all

Some very special friends came for dinner last night, so I made one of my favourite winter desserts; sticky date pudding with butterscotch sauce. Thi ... View all

If you don’t skip past the commercials in your DVR recordings, you probably know DiGiorno’s (or if you’re Canadian, Delissio’s ... View all

A month or so ago, we made this easy fish dish, adapted from a recipe in Fitness Food: The Essential Guide to Eating Well and Performing Better. The ... View all

Erich Auerbach (1946), Mimesis (trans. Willard Trask; Princeton University Press) on Emile Zola (1888), Germinal: We have chosen a passage from ... View all

OK, so this might not be possible for everyone, especially those with large families. But for the past 3 months, our electric bill has not been over $ ... View all

I hate to turn on the stove or oven in the summer so slow cooker meals are ideal for my family. I can dump the contents into the slow cooker and walk ... View all