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...bentbacktulips.co.uk has been ordered, along with a nice lot of hosting. I am a freebie cheapskate no longer! (Well, I still am at the moment, but not for long.) You're stuck with me for at least the next twelve months (and the domain name's mine for the next two years).

jumps up and down excitedly

I mentioned it here three or four months ago (but I don't think anyone was reading my blog at the time), and I mentioned it to Neil Gaiman at the weekend (he seemed to like it), so I'll give it another plug because I just love it so much - the coolest digital clock ever. [Requires Flash.]

Everyone else (UK at least) seems to be talking about the BBC's Test The Nation IQ test, but I'm not going to because last year the results seemed to be massively skewed in favour of older age groups and the average across the country seemed to be 106 or 107. I thought the average was defined as 100?

Anyway, instead of that I watched Channel 4's 100 Greatest Movie Stars and tried not to get annoyed with some of the choices and ranks by reminding myself that the poll was for "great movie stars", not "actors". Some of the rankings were truly bizarre - Marilyn Monroe only #39? Ewan McGregor #9? Of course, they can be explained by the fact that it was voted for by the general public, but with that being the case I'm surprised (but rather pleased) that Leonardo di Caprio only made it into the mid-90s, even though all the voting was done over the Gangs Of New York period.

But I was rather chuffed that three of my six favourite actors were in the top 4 - Kevin Spacey #4, Robert de Niro #2 and Al Pacino #1 :) As for the others, Jimmy Stewart got #12, Dustin Hoffman #25ish, and Edward Norton wasn't featured. Grr.

[Movie stars, not actors, movie stars not actors...]