"A book becomes collectible when it's hard to find, and this will become very, very collectible, surely worth four figures." So says AbeBooks.com spokesman Richard Davies about the O.J.Simpson If I Did It book. The publishers have recalled it for pulping, but there's every chance that at least some copies will escape destruction. It won't be long before portions of the book and the television interview that was supposed to accompany it turn up on the internet. Then it will be up to each of us to decide whether we want to read it or not - and what the moral issues are.

For some reason, some people have been visiting this site for information about Paul "Fatty" Vautin. I assume it's something to do with a blog item I wrote after I ran into Fatty a few months ago at a Channel 9 function for The Footy Show (NRL version). All I can tell you about Fatty is that he grew up in vaguely the same part of Brisbane I did and that he played for Wests Mitchelton rugby league club before hitting the big time as an A-grade player and now a TV personality. He seems like a reasonable kind of bloke and he still makes time to support his old juniors club, which is a good thing. This site might be helpful if you want to know more.

I guess it's a matter of how contrived you want your "reality" TV to be. Gold Coast chess champ and Dancing with the Stars contestant Arianne Caoli is under fire because she's allegedly a well-trained dancer - even though she told host Daryl Somers that she'd never had a dance lesson. My care factor's pretty low, but people are voting on this thing and the producers owe it them to preserve some integrity in the process.

I just had occasion to visit the QTix website, where one can purchase tickets for shows at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre and various other Brisbane venues. I was immediately reminded that the site is quite unfriendly. It features just a few shows on the front page and then invites users to search for what else is on offer. All very well if you know what you're looking for, but not very helpful if you just want to have a quick look at what's on offer. Yes, you can just search by genres, but surely a significant number of people might just want to browse the "shop window" and, as a result, could end up buying tickets for something quite different to what they were originally looking for.