Blue Monday Darkened by Economy and Weather

Blue Monday falls on the third Monday of January and is widely considered to be the most depressing day of the year.  The barrage of cold weather, stacks of unpaid Christmas bills and failed New Year's...

Recession-Themed Christmas Cards a Good Sale This Holiday Season

If you think everything there was to invent in Christmas shopping has already been invented, think again. A New York entrepreneur Andrew Shaffer has discovered an unlikely Christmas shopping market niche. He is...

Gloomy forecasts for UK economy

[Gloomy forecasts for UK economy   T The Bank of England governor and an influential think tank have predicted that the UK economy is likely to sink...

Playlists: Music for the Credit Crunch?

Laura Barton offers her picks, hits and misses on Music to help you get through the credit crunch (The Guardian, July 21).She first mentions The Filter (a recommendation site with Peter Gabriel amongst its founders. As the name suggests they filter music for you) who she says...

Gordon Brown's 'deeply gloomy' taste in art revealed

Brown's choice in art is conventional in many respects and shows a good solid taste if perhaps a little dark. The Hodgkin piece with typically the painting going on to the actual frame is an interesting choice. "...

UK confidence 'near all-time low'

Grim times ahead in the UK."UK confidence 'near all-time low' Rising prices have been blamed for falling confidence Confidence among UK...

And the award for craziest song goes to...

A music writer for the Guardian, Dorian Lynskey, had an interesting idea for his column this week--invite readers to name their favourite songs about mental illness.  It might sound a little crude, but he...

'Unremittingly Bleak' Scottish Writer Wins Costa Book Award

Congratulation to novelist Alison 'A.L.' Kennedy for her Costa 'Book of the Year' Award win. As a sometime stand-up comedian, however, her book doesn't sound quite like the 'pick me up' one might imagine could...

Scientist James Watson flies home after employers suspend him

Good riddance, I say. It is a right and bold step. Kudos to the institute."The Nobel Laureate who provoked an international row by apparently claiming that black people are less intelligent than whites left...

War-weary U.S. is down in the dumps

"Things are gloomy south of the border. Men and women, whites and minorities — all are feeling a war-weary pessimism about the United States seldom shared by so many people. Only 25 per cent of U.S. residents...

The Bakers on Bagot Street

"The gloomy stretch of Bagot Street between Princess and Queen seems like a strange place to find a busy bakery like Card's. They clearly favor flavor over frill here. The shop is basic. It doesn't look particularly nice or stylish. The food doesn't either. It does, however,...

MySpace Predator Caught by Code

Five months ago, Wired writer Kevin Poulson had one of those crazy ideas: write some code that would catch sexual predators at MySpace.Poulson took data from the national sexual predators registry,  and wrote...

America has no future, expert say

America must pay for its sins!!!

Cheery Optimistic Men Less Likely to Die from Heart Disease

A merry old soul has only about half the risk of dying of heart disease as a chronic grinch contemporary, Dutch researchers reported

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