A guide to what's hot and what's cold.
What's hot
The Captain Scott diet Ooh, look how much weight Bruce Parry and pals lost on their copycat expedition. Antarctica, anyone?
Dunnes Stores Dubes Look like the real thing, at a third of the price.
The Show with Zefrank Daily videoblog of off-the-wall humour from Brooklyn. Catchphrase: "This is Zefrank, thinking so you don't have to." www.zefrank.com/theshow.
Keeping a food diary for a week Tedious perhaps, but it might help you get a grip on your grazing.
Chopper rides People who drive Humvees may want to fly in a new Sikorsky helicopter, now available for corporate rentals. Book it now for your Christmas party. www.executive-helicopters.com
What's cold
School-run traffic jams If it wasn't for those pesky kids . . .
Stock-pushing e-mails Want to lose money fast? Buy shares recommended by "pump-and-dump" spam.
Awkward bottle bank encounters While dumping bottles after your summer party, you meet the friend you didn't invite. Whoops.
Karen Millen hits Grafton Street. Lovely clothes but only if you have a little doll-like figure.
Lazy pizza couriers "Delivered to your door" doesn't mean "he'll be sitting on his bike outside the gates to your apartment building".