MoneyWeek editor, latest on the UK house price crash « Peter J. Cooper’s W...

"Money Programme interview with the Editor of MoneyWeek, Merryn Somerset Webb on UK house prices which have been falling at their fastest pace in history over the past two months. This lady has been proved right for steering buyers away from property in recent years. Listen...

D-Backs stay hot, down Rockies

Even though the season has barely started, it is clear that the D-backs will be the team to beat in the NL West. Anyone who say the young talent emerge over the past few years can see they are now starting to mature at the same time and actually feeding off of one another's...

Webb opens, closes vacant Senate session

"The U.S. Senate was called to order for 11 seconds on Wednesday as the last political scuffle of the year between the White House and the Democratic-led Congress played out."

Californication S01E01 (Showtime)

Following in the vein of shorter entertaining dramedies like Weeds, currently about to begin its third season, Californication follows Hank Webb, a writer whose book was just turned into a cheesy movie.

Liberal Talk-Radio Show Host Mike Webb's Body "Possibly" Found in His Queen A...

His sister says he had been missing since the 13th of this month when his webcasted talk-show last aired.This evening, the Seattle Police Dept. suppossedly reported to FOX news that Webb's decomposed body has been found in Webb's QA home.  Yet, the family wants everyone...

Scotland on Sunday

"THE ingredients most likely to spark confrontation between the United States and Iran could scarcely be simpler or more combustible: a tin filled with an explosive charge and a lump of copper is all that is needed to manufacture what the US military calls an Explosively...

I hate Macs - Posted by Michael Fomkin

"Unless you have been walking around with your eyes closed, and your head encased in a block of concrete, with a blindfold tied round it, in the dark - unless you have been doing that, you surely can't have failed to notice the current Apple Macintosh campaign starring David...

Muscular Liberalism

"I just listened to Chris Wallace’s interview of Jim Webb, and I was reminded of n2l’s discussion of the coinage of the term “muscular liberalism.” Webb flexed his liberal muscles as he impatiently explained to the pesky Wallace the differences between the Sunni...

MEMS for Viewing Faraway Galaxies

"Efforts to peer deep into the early universe are important to understanding its formation, but this requires the gathering of very faint infrared light--which is difficult because nearer, brighter objects overwhelm the signals of darker objects that are farther away. Now...

Hubble in Trouble: Little Hope for Failing Camera

"The Hubble Space Telescope's main camera — the ACS (advanced camera for surveys) — has stopped working. It went into safe mode early Saturday morning, and engineers for the space telescope have little hope it can be fixed."This camera was replaced recently, it is only 4...

End of the story for book shop

" ONE of Northampton's last independent booksellers, Kingsthorpe Bookshop, is closing down after more than 30 years. Owner Robert Webb said he had started looking for a new buyer last year in the run-up to his retirement and has now revealed the Harborough Road shop had been...