F1 has improved a little over the past two or three seasons, as changes have been made to deliberately limit the technology and create a more level competition.

But its still the case that, basically, whoever gets to the first corner first is going to control the race. Unless there is bad weather, or someone mucks up a pit stop, there is very little chance to overtake. In fact, some of the tracks (Monaco being an obvious case in point) have nowhere to overtake - unless you can get past whilst another car is in the pits

By contrast NASCAR has numerous overtaking, and with very similar cars the emphasis is on driver skill not just who happens to have enough sponsors to get a seat in one of the few cars that are always at the front. Even as a UK resident, I'd rather watch NASCAR on TV. It always seems to have more excitement, and more interest. In fact, I'd like to make a trip over to see something like the Daytona 500 live, it looks totally awesome

I'm with you

I'd only vaguely even heard of Iron Man, but really enjoyed the movie. Apparently, in the comics he went through an alcohol problem - hope that they pick up on that in the inevitable Iron Man II

I'll be away on a course on Tuesday, so unless they have WiFi I won't be downloading that day

I'm currently doing a Masters degree and our tutors have flat out told us that we shouldn't be putting Wikipedia citations in the footnotes. It's not acceptable to the external examiner at the University to have Wikipedia citations.

Having said that, we've been told that it is quite acceptable to use Wikipedia as a good background source on any subject, and to find facts, dates, quotes etc, (so long as they aren't ones that have been flagged as citation needed. In my own research) I will often read the Wikipedia entry on a given topic, alongside other sources. I don't get a sense of Wikiepedia, in general terms, being any less reliable than other books, texts or web sites - although I will always be aware, at the back of my mind, that there is a slight chance that the information might be wrong.

So, a cautious thumbs up for Wikipedia

That's assuming that BSG has actually jumped the shark at all

Frankly, I'm still right on board. Season 4 has been awesome, and I'm stoked to see where it goes in the next dozen episodes. Sure, there have a few filler episodes over the seasons - Black Market and The Woman King come to mind, yet there were still things to enjoy even then. But name me a series that didn't have a few less than stellar episodes over a period of 80 odd programs?

So say we all?

It was OK. The plain reality is that Harrison Ford is a pensionable bloke who looks his age - yet he can take a beating like a ripped 20 year old, and still come back for seconds. Once you suspend disbelief, you can sit back and enjoy the ride - and its a typical rollercoaster with larger than life enemies, fighting on trucks (why do they always have trucks?) and self-indulgent references to previous films i.e 'I hate snakes'!!!

The eventual resolution into an alien conspiracy was ludicrous - but by then I'd given up any sense of reality, and was just enjoying the action.