Everybody goes online, everybody has a cell phone, and kids hate blogging and Twitter, according to a new survey.

The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project findings show that the Internet isn't just prevalent in our lives, it is our lives. Ninety-three percent of teens ages 12 to 17 go online, 75% of them own a cell phone, and 66% say they text. In fact, 58% of 12-year-olds now have mobiles, compared to 18% just five years ago. Sixty-two percent use the Internet to access information on news and politics, and some teens are even using the Internet as a guardian: 17% say they go online to research information about drug use, sexual health, and other topics that are awkward to talk about with real people.

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/zachary-wilson/and-how/pew-survey-finds-increase-social-media-internet-time-decrese-blogging-te

Swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker wonders if husband Andy Roddick will ever win another major title [GETTY]

Is Andy Roddick's tennis career being overshadowed by his swimsuit model wife Brooklyn Decker? The Circus investigates.

Andy who?
A quick google search on Andy Roddick then – former world No.1 tennis player, 2003 US Open champion and all-American heartthrob (The Circus is told) – and you will find the very first story relates to his wife.

It seems these days the fast-serving American is better defined by his better half, Brooklyn Decker, the newly announced 2010 Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover girl.

Decker, 22, is set for a long stint in the spotlight, in the tradition of former SI swimsuit cover girls Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks, but the real issue here is how can she improve poor Andy's form with the racket?

Riding to work on Melbourne's Bike To Work day (Photo: AAP)

Despite signs of progress by forward thinking governments, Australia still feels like a dystopia to Europe's growing cycling Utopia, writes Matthew Keenan.

In the days leading up to the start of last year’s Vuelta a Espana I had the pleasure of spending some time in Holland and enjoying a road culture that supports bikes.

Watching mothers pick their kids up from school with one on the backand one on the front, men riding home from work in their suits stoppingfor chat with an old friend in the town square and women, who appearedto be in their 70s, with panniers loaded up with groceries making thegentle trip home all got me feeling a little dreamy.

In the bubble of cycling friends I associate with, having all this in Australia somehow seemed possible. Cycling utopia.

If it wasn't official, it is now. We have a two horse race for the Premier League title. And at the other end of the table it's only a matter of time before Pompey are doomed.

If it wasn't official, it is now. We have a two horse race for the Premier League title.

And at the other end of the table it's only a matter of time before Pompey are doomed.

Navigating North

Based at Mangrove Mountain, on the NSW Central Coast, Michael Champion is an organic farmer who specialises in leaves. Salad leaves mainly, but interest has grown in recent months for what he calls, “accidental edibles”, including stinging nettles.

Champion brought the first bags of nettles to Eveleigh Farmers’ Market in Sydney last winter, their natural season. I bought some from him and added them (blanched) to a risotto with herbs. Recent heavy rain has seen the nettles return. They also make a good a filling for pasta.

Rodney Dunn at The Agrarian Kitchen in Lachlan, Tasmania uses the nettles he finds in his paddocks for filling tortellini. Nettles can also be boiled to make a tea, the leaves are rich in vitamins and are reputed to help detoxify the liver, and contain vitamins A, B, C, D, E and K.

The counter-attacking system made famous by Inter in the 1960s has stood the test of time and has become the most lethal weapon in modern football.

The counter-attacking system made famous by Internazionale in the 1960s has stood the test of time and has suddenly become the most lethal weapon in modern football.

The finest and most successful teams in the world are not necessarily the ones that have the best attacks but those who have the ability to turn defence into attack at the flicker of an eyelid.

Helenio Herrera’s Inter used to catch many club teams by surprise with their clinical use of the counter-attack, especially those naive British who charged forward en masse with little or no regard for defensive cover.

Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning was downcast after his Colts loss ruined his sports multi bet [GETTY]

According to the Journal of Gambling Studies a win is always just around the corner. But try telling that to The Circus.

Bug bites brain
Boffins at the University of British Columbia have come to some brilliant deductions as to the gambling habits of us humans. The findings – published in the Journal of Gambling Studies (The Circus would have put money on no such publication existing) – show that near misses excite the very same parts of a gambler's brain as wins do.

The result is a viscous cycle of loss chasing due to the gamblers' reasoning that a win is just around the corner… hang on, it took a team of scientists to tell us that?

In any event, it explains The Circus's compulsive desire to put the house on the West Indies in today's ODI after laying our yearly salary on these almost-wins in yesterday's Super Bowl:

The more, the better. That’s the fashionable recipe for nurturing new ideas these days.

It emphasizes a kind of Internet-era egalitarianism that celebrates the “wisdom of the crowd” and “open innovation.” Assemble all the contributions in the digital suggestion box, we’re told in books and academic research, and the result will be collective intelligence. Yet Apple, a creativity factory meticulously built by Steven P. Jobs since he returned to the company in 1997, suggests another innovation formula — one more elitist and individual. At Apple, there is a similar link between the ultimate design-team leader, Mr. Jobs, and the products. From computers to smartphones, Apple products are known for being stylish, powerful and pleasing to use. They are edited products that cut through complexity, by consciously leaving things out — not cramming every feature that came into an engineer’s head, an affliction known as “featuritis” that burdens so many technology products. How much are you prepared to pay for such design restraint?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/weekinreview/31lohr.html

A fairytale ending. Saints quarterback Drew Brees bathes in the glory of a Super Bowl victory [GETTY]

New Orleans' come from behind victory in Super Bowl XLIV is the kind of fairytale gridiron film that writes itself.

Tracy Porter almost missed the bus – which would have been unfortunate.

A Louisiana local on the New Orleans Saints roster, Porter had been getting his head shaved at the team hotel before yesterday's Super Bowl.

One the left side of his head: "SB 44" representing Super Bowl XLIV, as the NFL's marketing department like to call it.

Angus Morton, Team Drapac-Porsche (Photo: Drapac)

Drapac Porsche's Angus Morton took some time out to learn about life without cycling, here he writes about rediscovering his first love.

Drapac Porsche's Angus Morton took some time out to learn about life without cycling, here he writes about rediscovering his first love.

This blog comes just over one year since I 'retired' from cycling and in a way it signifies my return to the sport after a year spent in the wilderness.

I have lived and breathed cycling since I was 9-years-old and was the kid who tried to leave school at 17 to ride.