As for the so-called died-in-the-wool football lovers, well, er, they are unable to think or talk about anything else!

BBC: Ghana embraces Nations Cup fever

You would not give your Gold Amex to a stranger in the street, so don't e-mail its numb er to any old website.

CNN: CAVEAT SURFER

Where once the West relied on China's lack of environmental enforcement to tamp down rare-earth prices and implicitly subsidize high-tech goods, in the future the nature of the subsidy will change so that China's cheap(er) labor will subsidize Western mid-tech goods.

WSJ: Business Asia: Postcards From the Rare-Earth Front

We're all phish bait, so never take anything you get in your inbox at phace -- er... sorry -- face value.

CNN: The world's most poisonous phish

We decided that if we must wear tuxedos then we would try to customize them so they would set us apart from the rest of the flock of penguin-suits patrolling the courgette, er Croisette.

CNN: Behind the red carpet at Cannes