There was much, especially online, heated commentary and speculation in regards to the nature of the bombs (breathless reports of Hizbullah, of Hamas, of military explosives tying the bombers to whatever the axegrinders wanted to tie them to). Rather precious little stand back and be sceptical.

Now we learn, presuming the report is correct (and London has merely voiced disapproval) that the bombers put both sets of bombs together out of home made materials and most reports are trending to seeing these simple fools (the bombers not the commentators, being another kind of simple fool) as out perhaps largely on their own but certainly not plugged into some explosive smuggling operation.

The lesson here is (i) even in online posting, best not to be too gullible regarding early reports, (ii) despite, in regards to the linked tempest in a tea pot sub-literate overreading of Cole's bloody phrasing, the reality is this is backyard, garage level stuff. Bleating on senselessly about 'this really is war' (and worse yet, making idiotic pot pourri posts mixing in unrelated issues) merely emphasises why this "blogosphere" really renders down to some generally poorly informed obsessive gits.