I can’t claim to be a big fan or anything but I was surprised that the BBC seemed to focus on just one song when reporting her death. What about Diet Coke ?

And in October Steve Jobs died. He told Apple fans that it was worth paying three times more for their computers because they were the best designed in the world and they loved him for it, even though etc. etc. you get the idea.

Each double page has a week’s view on the left and space for notes on the right. At the end there is a forward planner, a double page spread with each date in 2013.

But then, … nothing. Uh oh, by this logic it looks like 31st December 2013 will be the end of the world.

(Apologies, loyal readers, for linking to a dumb site just for the sake of humour)

Clarkson got in trouble this week for a joke about the Public Sector Pensions Strike (which I completely support). The joke as reported was in pretty poor taste and not at all funny, but actually in context it did make me laugh.

I don’t think he should be prosecuted for this, but perhaps he should reconsider his relationship with the BBC like Jonathon Ross had to a couple of years ago. When you have the comfort of a big, lucrative BBC contract its easy to overestimate your own importance and forget the audience you are playing too.

I wouldn’t want our comedians’ freedoms limited to the extent that Stewart Lee couldn’t tell this joke:

The Libyans, when they didn’t like their leader, they dragged him out of a sewer pipe, shot him in the face, and put him in a meat fridge. Nobody told them to, they just went ahead and did it. That’s the big society in action, David Cameron.

(Thanks Zoe Williams in the Guardian for that one), but I’m guessing he won’t be telling it on the One Show any time soon.

And I still don’t know if I like Frankie Boyle, but I thought he gave a very good account of himself in this Guardian profile.

Hang on a minute, the Godfather Part III isn’t an old movie. What are you on about hipster lady ? Yes, I also like classic Motown like Shanice and old Star Treks with Captain Janeway and Jim Lee’s run on the X-Men.

Sheesh ! Am I old or what ?

uh oh …

Georgie’s comment: I like Ugly Betty

I see Nick Clegg put up a strong argument in favour of AV.

I wonder which way he intends to vote ?

And just for the record, I will be voting for AV, but I’m still mad as hell at the Liberals for betraying the students (and the rest of their voters).

Well done to the Guardian for sticking with this story and I’m sure there’s much, much more to come.

Best Coulson jokes from Twitter / The Guardian:

Coulson resigns “to spend more time listening to other people’s families”.
@RopesToInfinity

Show your appreciation for Andy Coulson. Leave him a message of a support on your voicemail.
@davidschneider

Coulson first learned of his resignation when listening to David Cameron’s voicemail.
@bristolpaul