"roundup of arrests, detentions and surveillance since January"

German woman spends decade in Palma's airport
Hopefully life won't become more difficult for her now that she's become more widely noticed.

Simon Pegg Interviews Edgar Wright and Jessica Hynes about SPACED
Hilarity most definitely ensues. The gang have been in the US promoting the dvd release of the series and its been quite surreal reading the countless reports and news articles about a series which was originally on here in the late nineties, but they're having to treat as something new for this audience, explaining the point of the thing and often why there are just a dozen or so episodes. On this occasion, Pegg takes over the mike because the interviewer (clearly a little worse for wear) had been hit on the head by a support beam at the Comic-Con.

BBC pulls the plug on Holby Blue
I was quite positive about this back in the day though I drifted away somewhere in that first season. It ultimate fell between two stools -- trying to ape the US style whilst simultaneously trying not to be The Bill. It's odd how this kind of cop show seems like such a spent force over here, whereas across the atlantic and elsewhere they run and run.

Olympic Challenge
Index on Censorship rounds up the Games related "roundup of arrests, detentions and surveillance since January"

Daphne And Celeste Getting Bottled At Reading 2000
What makes this amusing isn't just the ferocity of the attack -- the crowd were clearly waiting for them -- but also the determination of the girls to carry on regardless and even launch into a second song and managing to put in a half decent performance. I've always thought D&C where ahead of their time; in the present climate, their brand of pop seems positively revolutionary.

Polymeme
Is like an ultra-focused Google News which only selects sources based on how authoratitive they seem to be about the subject, mixing bloggers and professionals and professional bloggers.

Star Trek: The Complete Comic Book Collection DVD
There was a time when the most imaginative stories from the Roddenburyverse/Trekkieverse/any ideas? were in comic book form -- this new dvd-rom collects together the complete history of the franchise in ink across the various publishing houses it bounced through across the decades. Some of the Marvel Comics which came in the wake of The Motion Picture were surreal; example: "There's No Space Like Gnomes"!

Elizabeth Wurtzel: Rehab Nation: The Only Way to Say You're Sorry
Audio column from a couple of years ago in which Wurtzel "says that going into rehab after you've seriously screwed up is the only way to show contrition in the public eye." So that's what she sounds like.