Via MediaWatchWatch comes the news from The Independent (update: link now pay-to-view) that Woolworths and Sainsbury’s have withdrawn from sale our old friend Jerry Springer: The Opera on DVD due to "customer concerns".

Sainsbury has admitted it received just 10 complaints.

Tim was written to both expressing his disappointment. Time for a seasonal, free speech boycott of Woolies and Sainsbury’s? A pledge, perhaps? Or a nice sidebar button?

Either way, I won’t be shopping at either for the rest of 2005. That’ll learn ’em.

Via Thinking Aloud, theguardian’s best geek novels since 1932. I won’t be highlighting those I’ve read because that would be, um, one.

I’m not a grinch, a party-pooper or a spoilsport. But please let someone on Space Cadets have sufficient nous to spot very quickly that it’s a con and expose it for the mean-spirited, unfunny, egregious show it will be. Because despite being mean-spirited, unfunny and egregious, its worst crime is providing another vehicle for Johnny Vaughan to be on TV.

At the end of the first episode, someone should reveal to him that it’s a big practical joke. Of course they didn’t spend £5m on such a stupid idea, and of course they didn’t employ him to front it.

And then everyone laughs in his face.

As I boarded an aeroplane on Monday night, one of the cabin crew asked me to move farther down the aircraft.

To spread the load.