The public proves itself cleverer than the DVD manufacturers would like, Now it appears region coding might be on the way out. Very good news.

I love a list, this one is novelist Mike Gayles idea of the top ten male confessionals. Round up the usual suspects. "All Points North" by Simon Armitage should be in there, although I suppose it's a memoir rather than a novel, but then so is Hornby.

Another list. This time the Booker longlist. I can't say I am inspired, how did Zadie Smith get on it, her new work hasn't been published yet has it?. The final 6 will be interesting.

Pull the finger, it cracked me up.

Intellectualising about football. It is just a game

Cult Telly. You could lose yourself for hours here.