Numbers.

• Electronic Arts puts on a "Harass a Booth Babe" contest. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE WRONG WITH THIS GREAT IDEA?

• Don't Copy That Psalter! Or 3000 blokes will be round with swords later.

• NotN: Press reports dazzling quarter for Microsoft; Michael Jackson "news value missing" at autopsy.

Tonight I am off to Vagabonds. I am poor and will be cadging drinks. Hey, I put out!

(B-Movie V-Movie next week too. We're doing well.)

Freda fanclub pics: her on her new plastic armchair 1, 2, 3.