I did a night dive once. With two divers we only had one flashlight to navigate under water. In my vivid imagination I pictured throngs of monsters waiting for me just outside that small circle of light.

I'm asking that all pastors, politicians, and right thinking citizens, no matter their political affiliation speak up against the tragic and pathetic displays of hatred, racism and unpatriotic disrespect of the President.

My fellow Americans, and by that I mean only the true Americans.

Business case study for all the designers among you. Imagine a client that designed his own logo. In Times New Roman. Bold. Italic. With a shade applied.

A passenger jet carrying more than 130 people crashed into a field as it was coming into land in Amsterdam Wednesday. The Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 broke into three pieces on impact, but fatalities were initially thought to be minimal.

Old-fashioned voodoo economics — the belief in tax-cut magic — has been banished from civilized discourse.

Why are they still so confidently entitled to these walloping sums? Few people get a bonus for doing their job: most get sacked if they don't. Incentives might make a difference to a low-paid cleaner, while strivers in competitive worlds fight to stay on top anyway.

SENIOR VATICAN figures have criticised President Barack Obama on the same day that it was officially confirmed that the Pope had lifted the 1988 excommunication of four traditionalist "Lefebvre" bishops.

Pope Benedict XVI's rehabilitatation of a British bishop who denies that millions of Jews died in Nazi gas chambers has alarmed Catholics who fear it risks dealing a fatal blow to the inter-faith dialogue promoted by his predecessor.

For the 15th time a Dutch jury has chosen their favorite editorial cartoon and awarded the 'Inktspotprijs' to illustrator Tom Janssen. Janssen is a cartoonist for Dutch newspaper 'Trouw' since 1976, and also won the award in 2004. Source in Dutch: Volkskrant

In a discussion a couple of weeks ago here on the Vine I was challenged to come up with proof behind the following statement I made: Iraq was already secretly on the agenda, 9/11 was a good excuse, the WMD's were a deliberate lie and Bush gets away clean because people swallowed  …

In my family it has been a custom for many years for the first son to inherit the family capital, the titles and all the land, the second son was to serve in the military or become a clergyman (depending on his sexual orientation) and the third son was given some seed money and w …

A Portsmouth, N.H., couple yesterday blamed each other for their black and blue Christmas when they got into a violent fight - and arrested - after an argument over a gift of the popular Nintendo video game.

You may have been confronted with this question unwillingly over the phone or in a chatroom, and you don't need to answer. But I really really want to know what you are wearing. Trust me, I'm a professional. Allow me to explain.

I'm aware of the fact that there are several groups on the Vine discussing web development/web design, I'm a member of most of them.

It must be the season. It's possibly the economic crisis. It may have something to do with the outcome of the elections. But my keen Christianity radar is picking up more religious blips than usual. Here's a quick overview of the pieces that caught my attention.

A good idea is always simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining the readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes the best results were achieved by using small circles.

Dear Trevor and Alexandra,

The UK's first ever atheist advertising campaign launches today, with official support from the British Humanist Association and Professor Richard Dawkins, best-selling author of The God Delusion.

Most Americans have one eye on the nation's financial crises and the other on the presidential election.

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Democratic candidate Barack Obama on Saturday of "palling around with terrorists," in the latest sign the campaign is turning increasingly nasty.

To mark the end of his time on Doctor Who – although he will still be in creative control of the spin-off Torchwood and the Doctor Who Christmas specials – Davies has co-authored a book about the creative process of writing Doctor Who scripts, called Doctor Who: The Writer's  …

This was a birthday present I made for my friend's 40th in 2005. We have a long-running in-joke about the phrase "What are you doing here?" cropping up everywhere in TV shows. As we also both like Doctor Who, doing this seemed like a good idea.

Can't get an interview with Sarah Palin? We've got you covered. Q: Why should the US elect Senator McCain?

Our gaze might be on the markets melting down, but the upheaval we are experiencing is more than a financial crisis, however large. Here is a historic geopolitical shift, in which the balance of power in the world is being altered irrevocably.