If someone wanted to murder and rob me I would rather a policeman standing where the camera is rather than the camera recording me getting murdered.

Are Google forgetting how they managed to take number one from AltaVista? Fast, clean and accurate results trumps all.

"Swedish authorities have cancelled an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316

When was the last time there was a major government sponsored ad campain on TV/radio/print warning people about scammers/spammers and the like?

Page rank is broke and to be honest it always has been. "These terms only appear in links pointing to this page".

"Thomas Givnish, a plant ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, adds that the hypothesis could be strengthened by "exposing these plants to ... emus or ostriches to demonstrate that these traits deter browsing by birds" When I was studying evolution at Canterbury University in 2000 one such scientist from the US was about to conduct this experiment with emus I believe. I finished uni the following year and never did find out the results of the experiemnet, anyone know?

It really does effect people differently. Me, I lose my appetite, get hyperactive and I seem to concentrate better. I particularly like and believe I am better playing table tennis and pinball stoned.