Fascinating, this washing up liquid

If you need some more frustration in your life...

...indeed. Why ever would you? But if you do, try this. Try to find out, on line, what time on Sunday night the Superbowl coverage begins.

Third attempt and I typed 2013 as part of the search. Third Google link down the queue? Superbowl 2011. Thanks.

I've just remembered the old Channel 4 American Football coverage. It's a big blokes' game, American Football. Strip away all the padding, helmets, body armour, and there's still a mountain of prime beef. The Yanks get ex-players to commentate and summarise. They may have to reinforce the floor of the commentary booth and stock up on the catering side of things, but at least you could take their pundits seriously. We had Nicky Horne. Four feet eleven inches and three stones soaking wet. A disc jockey. I wonder just how that selection process was undertaken?

The Which washing up liquid tests...

...checked out, for fat removing power, foam duration, thickness of liquid and value for money, brands and flavours including:

• Aldi Eucalyptus Antibacterial: if the dishes aren't gleaming, at least your nose is clear.

• Ecover Ecological Camomile and Marigold: that's too ecological, too sandals, muesli and organic cords for words. Are you washing up or having a late night soothing cuppa?

• Fairy Aloe Vera and Cucumber: what is Aloe Vera? Apart from how the late Jack Duckworth greeted his missus?

• Lidl W5 Concentrate Antibacterial Hygienically Clean: that's the Germans for you. No fancy Dan rubbish from the fuitbowl, the salad bar or the vegetable drawer. Just a scientific number, W5, and antibacterial, and hygienic (the object of the exercise) and clean (also the object of the exercise). It does what it says on the...er...squeezy bottle.

• Tesco Daisy Original: daisy?

I'm too tight to subscribe, and not interested enough to take the temporary free membership offer, so I don't know who won. If Ray Winstone at the Bet 365 guys were running a book, I might have a quid (each way) on the Lidl W5.

Massive Attack Submission

I'm listening, for the first time, to 'Protection'. One of those albums that works as a whole. More than the sum of its parts. Eighteen years old.

In The Submission the winning Muslim architect is sleeping with the lawyer on the Muslim lobby committee. As he's not a believer this is understandable. He's also, as all sorts of rabid, violent protests are starting, fasting for the first time, observing Ramadan. That seems to a change occurring. Is the design an Islamic garden? If it is, is that by subconscious accident or (sorry) by design? Just how much did the author base the anti-Islam protest leader character on Sarah Palin?