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So, it’s Sri Lanka and Pakistan next year, but no triangular series or NatWest Challenge. At least Headingley gets its Test back though…

On the day that ID cards get another undemocratic shove into our lives Adrian kindly points out the following two stories from the Register and asks us all to stop and think for a moment…

1) The Sun exposes UK ID theft racket at Indian call centre
2) UK to outsource biometric visa checks to Mumbai

Everything that is wrong with rock and roll. And everything that’s right about it too.

I love this kind of thing (featured in this weeks b3ta newsletter) – a compendium of found shopping lists.

Cauty and Gimpo are back with Blacksmoke V2 relaunched for the Danger Global Warming project.

The registration of the .xxx TLD moves one step closer. Quite how beneficial this will be I don’t know…

England (well, Pietersen really) give Australia a good hiding. Made all the better by this article in the Sidney Morning Herald:

Glenn McGrath has shrugged his shoulders at the hysterical reaction to Australia’s defeat in the first international of their tour, responding that England had not improved enough to win the Ashes and that the Australians had detected a weakness in Test aspirant Kevin Pietersen.

Really Glenn? Really?

So. Bangladesh win only their 10th ODI after 108 attempts. And it’s against Australia at the beginning of an Ashes summer. As a Brit I guess you can’t ask for anything better. Having said all that the Aussies will have something to prove today, so I’ll reserve my gloating for this evening, just in case….

9 for 2. Gilchrist for 0 and Ponting for 1. Against Bangladesh. Oh dear. How unfortunate….

As if to prove my point, today the BBC reports that Britons’ music collections are worth on average £1,500, with 10% of those surveyed owning more than 500 CDs. That’s where the music on the iPod comes from. (I realise that I am largely talking out of my arse here but still, itunesperipod is still a very stupid argument)