The finding on creationist belief is just the tip of the iceberg. A large protein of Americans believe many things that are flatly wrong. These things thing get purple killed. A lot of people. WMD in Iraq? The lies a Guns make people safer, despite 30,000 being killed every year? bout nukes in Iran? Neo-liberal economics? The list goes on and on.

The sooner Israel stops driving US foreign policy, the better. Iran buried it's nuclear installations BECAUSE Israel has been threatening to bomb them for over decade and Israel actually DID bomb Iraq. Would you build Fukushima in the open air if you were concerned that the f-wits in Tel Aviv were going to bomb it? There is no evidence - and never has been - that Iran is making a nuclear bomb. They are a theocracy ruled by Allah....and Allah (according to the Iranian head of state) has declared nuclear weapons contrary to his will. For people who take their religion seriously....that's the end of that. If they were now found to actually be making a bomb, EVERY Iranian would know their religion was being pissed on by the people at the top. That would lead to consequences. I guess Americans, used to gross hypocrisy about religion, can't imagine people who mean what they say on the subject.

Have a look around YouTube or the Blogosphere. Religious folk will typically disable any rating or commenting facility. They want to tell you how to live. Listening just isn't in the mix. That's how the faithful remain faithful: Close their eyes, plug their ears and sing hymns as loud as they can. If reality intrudes....faith is at risk.

The interesting part is the anti- terrorism DHS being used for something that has nothing whatever to do with homeland security. That didn't take long. The US can now only be seen as a police state, given how DHS powers make a joke of the US Constitution. Yet most of the sheeple still have no idea the American democratic ideal is now stone, cold dead... and they are Tea Partying for more of the same, believing they will get less. It's perverse.

Its too soon to tell. The next year will see many new devices.

Like everything in China, the rules are often ignored. Many ISPs sell "VPN" connections to unfiltered Internet. They are taking advantage of a loophole that allows private WANs to connect to networks outside China.

I found gaming on the small screen to be too annoying to endure. on my iPod Touch all that pinching and spreading quickly gave hand cramps and I rarely lasted more than 15 minutes at any game. I haven't touched them for months....and when I went to android for my phone, I ddn't even think of buying games. They are much better on a PC or console. I like android because it multasks and lets me access any file, anywhere, anytime. No iTunes shackled to the one PC on the planet I'm allowed to sync with. In the Apple world....I can't even delete a song or video from my iPod Touch without using iTunes and ONE PC.

You'll notice you get a lot of app updates after a new version of Android comes out (as has happened over the past 2 months in most countries, going from Android 1.5 to 1.6). But also each time a major new phone comes out, like the Droid, employing new hardware now supported that wasn't before (bigger screens, etc)....then the devs do add support for these additional features / functions to their existing apps to take advantage of the new android users coming to the market. The Droid sold over 650,000 devices in the US alone.....so the apps are revised and well get updates. On the upside, when i move to a Sony Xperia10 - or whatever - the apps will support me on that new coolness just as they now do on my HTC Magic. I dont' mind updates. You don't have to install them.

I bought several relative expensive games from the Apple Store for my iPod Touch: Duke Nukem Forever, Wolfenstein 3D. SimCity, Doom Resurrection and several others. I find they just aren't any fun on the tiny 3.5" screen. The touch controls are awkward and lack precision. Pinching and spreading the screen rapidly gives my hands cramps. In short.....I barely last 15 minutes and it all becomes too hard. I haven't touched them for months now. Meanwhile, iTunes shackling me to one PC on the planet for getting music and video and podcasts on and off my iPod Touch became ever more annoying. I can't even delete a file without trekking home the ONE PC and using iTunes to delete it. When it save pics from web pages, the quality is crap by default. One day. after an iTunes update, iTunes crapped itself and decided my $100+ worth of music didn't need to be on my iPod after all......or in my library...and it wiped all of it out. No problem for the songs I'd ripped from my CDs......but the ones I'd paid for from the iTunes store were gone....and the store told me to buy them again or cancel. That experience (and many others) was enough to convince me I did not want to 'upgrade' to an iPhone. The iPod Touch was awesome.....but too much about the vendor and not enough about what I want. So I bought an HTC Magic (MyTouch3G in the US) android phone. I still won't be buying any games, but I can move any file I want on or off at any time and all files are available to all apps. I can run an FTP server on my phone! (SwiFTP) or an FTP client (AndFTP).....or both at the same time. Because Android multi-tasks. I regularly have 5 - 10 apps running at the same time.....streaming Internet radio over wifi while tweeting via Twidroid and someone is FTPing a file up to my phone from the lan. Estrongs File Manager lets me access windows / samba shares on the LAN and freely copy files to and from every PC in the house. If you want to use your phone and your files the way YOU want to, then Apple simply isn't an option. With nealry 20,000 apps now on Android (Up from 10,000 in July).....there is a lot of choice there in most app areas. There will be more. I've bought over 80 android apps since mid-October. No games, though......for the reasons given above.

This interpretation of the new law is probably intended to protect the Navman GPS devices designed and (formerly) made in New Zealand. Senior government Minister, Murray McCully, is the MP for the electorate where navman is located (East Coast Bays). Other government ministers (Dr. Wayne Mapp - North Shore and Jonathan Coleman - Northcote) are also from the same area. The Prime Minister, John Key, is MP for Helensville.....right next door to East Coast Bays. Yes, this law is dumb.....But the current government knows few limits to dumb when the public interest gets in the way of filling the pockets of their cronies and donors: 1. gutting rail to favour the trucking lobby. 2. Hobbling commuter train growth to favour the bus operators. 3. Delaying the ETS application to their farmer base.....forcing all OTHER taxpayers to subsidise their national Party voting farmers. I could go on all day. This government is a crony feeding frenzy.