People arent always aware locally of just how much history is available online. The truth is that history explains why you sit frustrated, riddled with debt, ruled by morons and politically powerless. Welcome to the Matrix, in other words.

As the regime in America spreads its tentacles further and has clearly begun eyeing the oil reserves in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa, we’ll be seeing more and more of the CIA-construct known as Al Qieda (sp) popping up and doing things, to justify a US and UN presence.

So you think you know what’s really going on in Iraq, having read all the breaking news features in your morning paper and tuned in to the 8 o’clock news every night, like a good democracy-supporting citizen? You like to consider yourself politically aware and uptodate on current affairs then? I think you might find the following interesting then…

The Internet exists for three reasons. Information, news and of course, good old pornography. (Not that anyone really knows what pornography is). So let’s look at a range of fake and satirical porn sites, set up to play with the fairly obsessive human compulsion and interest in fornication.

I was thinking about Vampirism recently, which naturally led to Telkom, how they spend fortunes of our money on TV adverts telling us how good they are, how they’re protected by law from competition and how wonderful it will be when a real communications company comes into South Africa and kickstarts the beginning of the Internet for everyone at a cheap price.

A common mutation in a single gene could make the difference between fighting back against life’s assaults and sinking into clinical depression, according to recent research.

Queensland fullback Chris Latham replaced Matt Burke in the only change to the Australian starting lineup to face South Africa in Saturday’s Tri-Nations rugby union test here.

David Beckham says he has fond memories of Manchester United, but made it clear there was no point dwelling on the past.