Why is Guantanamo Bay still open?

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Enter Quora

After being inundated with follow notifications, I suspect it's time to seriously consider Quora, an online Q&A service which attempts to connect the curious with the knowledgable.  It's not the first one; Yahoo! Answers being perhaps the most prominent, but it's certainly the hottest property in the game right now, earning plenty of press and lots of kudos.  And, judging by the avalanche of activity I've been exposed to, Quora is so hot, it's smoking.

Plenty to Compare, Ready the Next Challenge for Insurance ComparisonWebsites

Despite your mean-spirited annoyance at television adverts ceaseless braying of insurance comparison web sites, the cacophony is masking a more important commercial reality: these have been jocund days for the industry. There's nothing like a downturn to focus consumers minds on saving money and the industry has seen big winners in terms of traffic and profit.

Blessed be UK consumers; when it comes to saving a bob on insurance we are spoiled for choice. There's excruciating hand-drawn crazy man (Confused.com), bewildering Meerkats (CompareTheMarket.com), a grindingly-ubiquitous tenor (GoCompare.com) and, depressingly, middle class boring (MoneySupermarket.com and Tescocompare.com). That's hardly the full list, but it's enough.

To Lift the Gloom, Baby Boomers Must Die

There is but one doubtless conclusion: a single path leads us out of these moribund days, darkened and close from war, pestilence, scandal, mistrust and fear.

We are doomed to this unyielding night until Baby Boomers are no more.

It is the only explanation that makes sense: Baby Boomers, the largest living crop of humans around, must be suffering a subconscious trauma, an abstract pain of dangerous proportions. It's for this reason our society seems in a perpetual funk, unable to escape the brooding and malevolent cloud lingering above us all.

I'm sympathetic, for sure; indeed, were I to suffer such so much repeated disappointment as this generation, I'd be feeling blue too.

Be Disappointed. Protest. But You Will Buy an Apple iPad

Far be it for me to advise you to otherwise follow your instinct and be either disappointed, subdued or even downright antagonistic towards the Apple iPad.

It's inevitable such hype surrounding the launch of a physical piece of kit will inspire these emotions and more. Yet when the dust settles, after all the bloggers and pundits have their say, the ultimate verdict will be inevitable: the iPad is yet another inspired offering from Apple.

Mr. Jobs – no dummy when it comes to product development – got the obvious out the way immediately during his January launch presentation: there is a gaping hole between the fixed, large investment hardware of a desktop or laptop computer and the nimble, pocket-sized mobile phone.