The UN strategy on drugs over the past decade has been a failure, a European commission report claimed yesterday on the eve of the international conference in Vienna that will set future policy for the next 10 years. The report came amid growing dissent among delegates arriving at the meeting to fin...

When I wrote of the bear trap last week, I meant that: a trap for the bears.  I must have written it poorly, since many of you interpreted it as a bull trap - a trap for the bulls.  A similar trap was sprung in Oct02, when Prechter believed in a much deeper fall that never came, and the ...

Personal Interpretative Selectivity Syndrome — Where the YNSTRILT Fallacy combines with the IDSISNT Fallacy, the result may be Personal Interpretative Selectivity Syndrome (PISS). Where the inability to perceive significance is equated with an actual absence of significance, and all significance t...

• Men wrongly convicted of murder speak out• Real culprit admitted guilt 15 years after brutal killing Life has stood still for Stephen Miller since he was arrested more than 20 years ago and charged with the murder of a young woman in Cardiff. "Not one day goes past without me thinking about th...

Hey, Senator Kerry, how long until the next Spending Orgyâ„¢, my toga is in the cleaners. Not Party Time Clearly, this is no time to party. Economic indicators are deeply troubling. Household debt-to-income levels are at historic highs, and estimates show that homes continue to be overvalued by as m...

Last week, while shooting eComm 2009 in Burlingame, I started posting a set of thoughts on Twitter, all starting out Dear Speaker. Getting up on stage and speaking is a difficult and demanding thing to do. It’s natural to be nervous and for that nervousness to show. It’s also hard to know how wh...

Yves Guestblog:    An ending era and a new start…. It is about time that we turn the page of this horrible episode of greed. From one bubble to the next, we had lived beyond our means.  The stock market being the great equalizer has cleaned up the slate. We will have soon t...

As is not unusual when backed by a media that likes nothing more than pitting company owners against a presumed proletariat, the Pacific Brands lynching continues. For those outside of Australia, Pacific Brands announced recently it was shutting down its Australian manufacturing plants. The company ...

Becks Plastilin is one of Europe’s biggest modelling clay developers but isn’t well known among parents because of global competitors like Hasbro’s Playdoh. The brief for Scholz & Friends was to communicate to young and modern parents that Becks Modelling Clay is a product that supports your c...

Picture via wonker's Flickrstream Being a Tottenham Hotspur fan has rarely been a passport to an easy ride, but their fans must, more than ever, be wondering what the point of their devotion really is. Had a virus not overtaken the team on the verge of Champions League qualification three years ago ...