The Beeb's Paul Reynolds looks at Osama bin Laden's state of the jihad speech and compares it to U.S. plans for fighting the long war.

No big surprises in his analysis.

To make a movie, you need a manageable number of characters. If you're basing it on a true story, some people will be the light shone on them, and some won't. This dilemma confronted director Paul Greengrass and his new 9-11 film United 93.

Fox News commentator Tony Snow is Dubya's new press secretary.

Got home from work tonight feeling famished (making tonight pretty much the same as any other night).

Put a snack-sized pack of perogies (found a good Polish supplier very near Howard Park and Roncesvalles) in the microwave, and proceeded to defrost them.

However, when that process had finished, I discovered to my horror that the sour cream in the fridge had morphed into a brand new life form.

What to replace it with? I didn't have any Ranch-style salad dressing.

But I did have tartar sauce, and by God if it didn't work!

Try it yourself sometime!