Questionnaires and focus groups aren't enought - now companies are having volunteers filmed for days on end to see what makes customers really tick, finds Stephen Hoare Teenagers around the world could soon be sporting a new range of Doc Martens trainers with coloured laces and a long tongue that pulls out of the shoe. Channel 4 viewers might find more of their favourite kind of programmes. And ...

How can free people grapple with growing threats to their privacy and liberty? A computer-security guru's view of the surveillance dystopia worries Becky Hogge Becky Hogge The entry for "tin-foil hat" in Wikipedia includes the definition "a popular stereotype and term of derision; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and is associated ...

The Township Council has awarded a contract to an Ocean County company for new video surveillance equipment for the Lenape Regional High School District.North American Video Inc. of Brick Township was the lowest bidder in the amount of $134,321. The video cameras will be paid for with funds from the federal Secure Our Schools grant program. Medford and Evesham townships applied for the grants on the district's behalf, according to Katherine Burger, ...

Andrew Osborn The Kremlin and the United States have been accused of flouting international law in areport which tells the little-known story of seven Russian men freed from Guantanamo Bay. According to the report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the men, who were released from the US detention centre in Cuba without charge, returned to Russia to face a life of torture, harassment and unfair trials. All seven were arrested ...

Craig Murray The British Government has published a map showing the coordinates of the incident, well within an Iran/Iraq maritime border. The mainstream media and even the blogosphere has bought this hook, line and sinker.But there are two colossal problems. A) The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government. Only Iraq and Iran can agree their ...

Andy McSmith The BBC was in court yesterday fighting over the public's right to know. But the Corporation was not battling to bring information into the open. Instead it has paid an estimated £200,000 in legal fees to keep the report secret. The Corporation is trying to persuade the High Court to overrule a decision by the Information Tribunal that an internal report into the BBC's Middle East coverage ...

Tom Allard DAVID HICKS will be behind bars in Australia until after this year's election, but his stint in an Adelaide prison will be relatively short, under a plea bargain being hammered out between prosecutors and his defence counsel. Government sources confirmed yesterday that Hicks's prospective sentence would take into account his five years and two months in Guantanamo Bay but would also include a short period to be served ...

Tara Greaves Say electric vehicle and many people think milk float - unless, that is, they have taken a look at the latest cars and bikes on display at the Green Wheels event in Norwich. A selection of vehicles, including biofuel and hybrid, are on display until the end of tomorrow at the Forum, alongside the spectacular Earth from the Air exhibition. The event began yesterday, the day that transport secretary ...

Jennie Daley Grass pellets sound more like rabbit food than a local, sustainable energy source, but a Cornell University professor hopes to change that perception.Jerry Cherney, the E.V. Baker professor of agriculture in the department of crop and soil sciences, has been working for about five years to pull together the pieces needed to create an industry around grass pellets and the stoves that burn them. The latest step ...

Iran confirmed Wednesday that the detention of 15 British marines and sailors took place last Friday after they had illegally entered Iranian territorial waters in the northern part of the Persian Gulf. "Iran has already provided the geographical coordinates of the detention to the British government and has sufficient evidence, including GPS navigator systems, to indicate the penetration of British military personnel 0.5 km deep into Iranian waters," the embassy in ...

Sam Knight Iran has broadcast a film of the lone woman among 15 Royal Navy personnel seized in the Gulf last week, in which she says she "obviously trespassed" into Iranian territory....

Bruce Schneier Interesting article about the terrorist database: Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE). It's huge: Ballooning from fewer than 100,000 files in 2003 to about 435,000, the growing database threatens to overwhelm the people who manage it. "The single biggest worry that I have is long-term quality control," said Russ Travers, in charge of TIDE at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean. "Where am I going to be, ...

Armed men have attacked an army vehicle in a Pakistani tribal area, killing five members of the military's spy agency, officials say. The attack on Tuesday happened in the Bajaur region bordering Afghanistan, where Pakistan authorities and tribal elders signed a deal on Monday to deny sanctuary to foreign fighters....

Pilots for 9/11 Truth, an international organization of pilots and aviation professionals, petitioned the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) via the Freedom of Information Act to obtain their 2002 report, "Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 77", consisting of a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file and Flight Path Animation, allegedly derived from Flight 77's Flight Data Recorder (FDR). ...

Toxic air, abuse of recovery process and pothole scandal is the real disgrace Paul Joseph Watson A popular tactic to shut down debate on behalf of debunkers is to claim that asking questions about the official 9/11 story is insulting to the victims, and yet it is the progenitors of that myth, the government itself, that through its post-9/11 actions has inflicted the most misery and suffering upon ground ...