Adam, this is your destiny

Karl Quinn recaps last night's MasterChef finale.

MasterChef recap: The Ultimate Foodie Championship

So, this is it, the final bout in the Ultimate Foodie Championship 2010. Blinky Bill versus Shintaro or, as the voiceover puts it, 'Callum, the boy from the Barossa with a passion for desserts' against 'Adam, the lawyer with the creative flair for the exotic'.

iLike: Apples gizmo is a multi-touch of class

THERE is a scene in an old Hollywood movie where Charlton Heston, playing the part of Moses, holds up a stone tablet on which is inscribed the rules that the faithful must obey.

Over time, the Yankee Spirit has been an economic boon

By Thomas H. OConnor, Special to the Reporter At a time when the nation faces severe financial depression, bank failures, and high unemployment, it should come as something of a consolation to recall that over the course of some 350 years New England has demonstrated an uncanny ability to adapt well to all kinds of economic changes. Certainly one contributing factor for this story of change and ...

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Martha's manifesto: Should people be forced online?

Book Review: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr

Many are still quoting from Nicholas Carrs 2008 Atlantic article Is Google Making Us Stupid? Here in The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, he elaborates to illustrate precisely how the Internet changes our lives. Along the way, Carrs highly entertaining ...