In a dark Zimbabwean cell, with walls splattered with blood and a floor covered in ice water, Charles Matorera cried himself to sleep, he says. Naked and bleeding, all he could think about was escaping.

Nearly 30 of this year’s major Hollywood films are sequels, but in the US ticket sales are down amidst a feeling that what seemed like a magic marketing notion no longer works.

The relief in the Raffles hospital foyer overflowed when news broke at 2.30pm yesterday that Ladan and Laleh Bijani had been successfully separated after 51 hours of pioneering surgery. The two dozen Iranians and Singaporeans who had held a vigil for the twins broke into spontaneous cheering and applause.

The widening gulf between the global haves and have-nots was starkly revealed last night when the United Nations announced that while the United States was booming in the 1990s more than 50 countries suffered falling living standards.

Six British soldiers, described by their war criminal Prime Minister, Tony "Blah-Blah" Blair back home in Westminster as being involved in doing an "extraordinary and heroic job", were killed, as it turned out, by an infuriated mob in southern Iraq last week.

The theme this week is capitalism – and no – it’s not a boring rant about the evils of whatever – it’s just taking a look at the kinds of things that people are selling, that are available online.

This week it’s mostly assorted useful sites – although the usefulness factor for some of them does possible depend on how much of an anarchist you are. But to kickstart the concept, let’s look at that computer of yours. (And this is one of the few ‘real’ useful sites that you actually should take time to work through.)