Heard of the the Svalbard International Seed Vault?

Well those cunning Scandanavians are up to some good trying to save biodiversity on the planet. Dubbed the "doomsday vault," it will house samples of every variety of crop seed available in every country in the world. The vault's purpose is safeguard agricultural biodiversity in the [...]

Its 5 am and I am sitting here with my coffee (artificial sweetner) looking out into the dark outside my windows. Summers outrageously early sunshine has all but left although its still pretty warm, however I still find myself having – what the bloody hell am I doing moments.

The last few weeks have been [...]

This in today from my mother -sometimes these things are worth repeating

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will.

You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time.

You'll break hearts too, [...]

Poisonous freshwater stingrays, bull sharks, piranhas, electric eels, five-metre anacondas, crocodiles, rapids, whirlpools, tidal waves, hostile native tribes and last but not least, the Candirú – aka The Vampire fish of Brazil.

Sound like the latest Tomb Raider game where Lara Croft fights to save the world (again) in the hostile jungles of South [...]

Apparently Billy Joel, arguably one of the worlds least attractive homonids, is about to release a new dance track, and it will be available on the much touted date of 20 Feb via iTunes.

And he is singing the US National Anthem at the Superbowl on Sunday 4th Feb – the very same Superbowl [...]

Hot of the heals of my recent post regarding the sad unexpected tragic departure of the product manager responsable for the weird dumb ugly music player offering from Microsoft – the Zune is a titter through the rumor sites suggesting that Microsoft if continuing to desperately pursue the iPod by planning to launch a [...]

I think it would be fair to say that I have been less than particularly enthusiastic about the Zune, Microsoft's foray into the music player market.

Touted as the iPod killer its numerous flaws, not to mention its tasteless brown colour, have rapidly earned39;t it an America wide yawn – and only in America [...]