Penelope wrote: I suppose it's best to be aware of this anyway, and make it known when it is discovered as you have done in this case.

I've now written an "Open Letter to NBC" and posted it to my blog:... http://sebastianmichaelon.blogspot.co.u ... o-nbc.html

Then, in a statement of supreme arrogance they said: "Our program is tailored for the U.S. television audience. It’s a credit to [opening ceremony producer] Danny Boyle that it required so little editing." I'm not sure when I've last heard anything quite so patronising and offensive. I do...

You probably know about this, but great source for watching here: http://www.nbcolympics.com/liveextra/index.html NBC not in our good books here, I'm afraid. They censored the '7/7 memorial' part of the Opening Ceremony as irrelevant to Americans. Then, in a statement of supreme arrogance they said...

Penelope wrote:I take back what I wrote in that last post!

What a superb opening ceremony.

yes that was absolutely superb. sir danny boyle now, surely...

Why is it called 'The London Olympics'? well, unlike, say, rugby world cups, olympiads are hosted by a city (with a few exceptions, such as football and the sailing and one or two other sports, all competitions happen in and directly around the 'host city'). i imagine this stems from the fact that ...

Surprised nobody else has started one yet, so I'm doing so now. Genuinely giddy with excitement about these Games and immensely looking forward to the Opening Ceremony tonight (the whisper I've heard so far is "amazing"). So it feels perhaps a little churlish to name a gripe (and I don't m...

A new review just out today with five out of five stars for Angel on Goodreads from Literary R&R:‎ "A haunting story...the words are nearly as beautiful as the character of Damion." - "Angel may very well change how you choose to view others." ***** http://www.goodreads.com/r...

Interesting questions. Yes, I reckon we're probably into quite different territory now from what ant had started. And although they are both intrinsically - I would argue inseparably - tied into our ability to develop anything that we may understand as civilisation, the two new strands that are eme...

Entropy does exist, but I would be careful saying it was the ‘cause’. It’s consequential. The causes are the forces of nature. Gravity, electromagnetic, strong and weak forces. These are what propel particles in relation to each other (and inertia). The process by which these particles trend toward...

Entropy, for those who don't know, is a measure of order. A house is an example of an ordered, or low entropy set of objects. think of all the parts and particles that make up the house. Think of the zillions of ways they could be arranged, if you say, tossed the whole thing into the air and let it...