Having a solid credit score has been important for quite a while now, but it’s actually becoming more important these days as lending tightens up. There’s a reason that the Fair Isaac Corporation — the organization that calculates the credit score that most major lenders rely on — ha...

Mick Murphy, courtesy of The Bike Show from Resonance FM the legend goes a bit like this: he trained with weights made from stone, he made a living as a circus performer, on one stage in the 1958 Rás, after his bike had broken down, he stole an ordinary bicycle from a farmer and chased down the lea...

Unless you’re a real die-hard fan of certain obscure technological practices, you’ve probably never heard of Bernie Spindel. He’s not exactly well-known; his only Wikipedia entry is over in the French edition, and it’s been a couple decades since anyone ever published anythin...

Number ONE on the gangsta hiphop top 10: The East Flatbush Project's "Tried By 12" Spencer Bellamy's forgotten track (it was released in 97 and is more famous in Europe than it is here) has the strange hypnotic power of a poisonous plant or a black rose eating a deadly spider. As for Des's rhyme sty...

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought ...

The treatment and handling of the most high-profile prisoners of war - or enemy combatants, or whatever else they’re being called this week - is reasonably well-known today; more has probably been written about the conditions at Guantanamo Bay than about any prison since the post-WWII flood of...

GOOD » Making Sense of the Financial Mess» - We tried to make sense of the financial mess we’re in. As you can see, we couldn’t come up with anything satisfying, so we want your help. We’re offering $500 to the best global finance infographic we receive, as judged by a ...

What? Yes, this is what I read in Tristram Stuart’s comprehensive history of modern vegetarianism, The Bloodless Revolution. The man so famous for thinking animals are mere machines lived on a diet of vegetables from his garden! According to his friend and biographer Andrien Baillet, at least at h...

I think once Thursday dodgeball finishes up, I may do these thrice weekly. * AP: “Every day, the economy is becoming more and more an Obama economy.” When the AP, which couldn’t be bothered to worry much about seriously examining Obama during the campaign, is starting to look at Ob...

The Flatpack festival properly launches this evening (Wednesday) with a Curzonora extravaganza at the Town Hall. I’ll let the programme explain: “Birmingham, 1901. Electric trams are making their debut on the Bristol Road, councillors are plotting to bring water all the way from Wales, a...