● The fastest way to go up a hill? Zig-zag! … who knew, eh?

● Is this the bus of the future?

● I know Mulley’s an Elmo doll fan but would he be an less so if he knew that one of them recently threatened to kill a Florida toddler?

● The European Commission don’t trust Microsoft – well there’s a shock.

● Now that Blu-Ray has won the format wars (thanks, Toshiba! Glad I got a PS3 now!) it looks like the HD-DVD add-on for the XBox 360 is due to drop to 50 bucks.

● Google in your brain – good idea/bad idea?

● Unless we can change the orbit of the Earth, we’re all screwed… well… in 7.6 billion years that is!

● OSAlt – find open source alternatives to a huge range of commercial software packages. Nice idea.

● The trailer for the new Star Trek movie – supposedly, this is the Irish page – shouldn’t it really say “St. Stephen’s Day” and not “Boxing Day”..?