Throwing sand at the theory that says only the young and boyant have the right to wear bikinis, 63-year-old Oscar winner Helen Mirren recently rocked a red two-piece and set off a wave of Buzz. Searches on " helen mirren bikini " and " helen mirren photos " both surged into the triple digits and several blogs within the Buzz paid tribute. The Huffington Post notes that it's difficult to believe?this is the?same actress who played the Queen of England. Meanwhile,

In a recent blog post on Wired, Geekdad lists the top 10 things to remember while watching " The Dark Knight ." Among the run-down of pointers, he states emphatically: "No matter how hard you trained, or how much money you suddenly had, you couldn't become Batman." Not so, says University of Victoria professor E. Paul Zehr. The academic and martial artist has popped up on sources from NPR to Trendhunter with news of his upcoming book,

Inflation is a lot like a mob of angry mosquitos??"it's relentless, scary, and really, really annoying. Even worse, unlike mosquitos, no spraycan can keep?inflation from biting you in the keister. Knowledge is humankind's only defense. We're seeing a growing number of searches from frustrated folks who, we can only assume, are tired of getting less for their money. News of inflation in the United States has been well publicized. Lookups on the term are up 20% this week.

I've had people ask me why I dislike using Internet Explorer so much. I suppose part of the reason for my distaste is the behaviour Microsoft has displayed in the past and present. Forcing the use of their software has never sat well with me, particularly when the software in question is always so full of holes. Internet Explorer is infamous for bugs, ranging from major security flaws to simple annoyances and everything in between.

Posted by randfish Lots and lots of people sign up for SEOmoz's PRO membership , and I have to tell you that on a personal level, every single one makes me feel honored, humble and yes, even a bit guilty about reading comic books last night instead of working on new tools/q+a/tips/etc. One of the big frustrations PRO members have, though, is that they can't find (or don't even know about) a lot of the cool stuff PRO membership provides. For example, at SMX Advanced,

by Stoney deGeyter After attending conferences, we always comes back ignited with new, bold and innovative ideas. We come back with more ideas on the table than we'll be able to implement within the next twelve months. That's both good and bad. Many of the ideas are simply spectacular but we lack the resources to implement them while maintaining focus on our core business. The price of innovating minds, I guess!

RedWine.com, one of those ads-only websites potentially profiting through Google. Google pays domain parkers by allowing them to run a special AdSense program. Titled " Google AdSense for domains ", this program now reportedly triggered a class-action lawsuit which alleges "that Google committed fraud, business code violations, and unjust enrichment by selling ads that were unlikely to generate conversions".

All parents want their kids to be unique. But few expectant moms and dads are so rewarded as Florence and Stephan, a mixed-race couple who lives in Germany. Several days ago, Florence gave birth to a healthy set of twins. The boys, named Ryan and Leo, emerged in a glorious, and extremely rare, set of different skin colors ??"one boy is white and the other black. How unusual is this? Apparently, medical experts consider it a " one in a million occurrence .

Google revenues topped $5.37 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2008, an increase of 39 percent compared to the second quarter of 2007. That's also an increase of 3 percent compared to the first quarter of 2008. But those numbers still disappointed investors who basked in the glow of Google's growth and perhaps lingered a little too long in the sun. The big news? Weakness in key sectors such as real estate,

Selected publisher-related tidbits from the blogosphere Are you a publisher who is constantly looking for the right image to post on your site? Well, we may not know what the best image is, but we can steer you to some free ones. The folks on the Flickr blog recently announced that Flickr is teaming up with Getty Images to create a collection of royalty-free, rights-ready and rights-managed photographs.