WHAT: www.rathergood.com. This is possibly the best and silliest website you'll see this year. Especially if your tastes run to music by the likes of The Vines and Led Zep, and you like cats. Or kittens to be more precise. Wearing caps and smoking fags.

The site seems to be the work of one Joel Veitch, who, despite sounding rather American, must be from somewhere round these parts judging by his reference points.

The main attractions are his wonderful alternative videos (check out the kittens performing outside the pub to a Destiny's Child cover by Bury band Elbow, or even better, sailing up the boating lake to the strains of Led Zep warning of impending Viking invasion - ("We come from a land of ice and snow...").

But there are also some bonkers animations. The guardian spoons are fun, while the spoof of Jamie and his Magic Torch can't be discussed here.

Whoever and wherever Joel might be, he has a bright future.

WHAT: Peter's calendar. Not only is Peter Kay the most popular funnyman in the country, but his widely praised Phoenix Nights, set to be followed by a spin-off series, is such a hit that Peter's 2003 calendar is the most popular in the run up to Christmas.

Showing Peter on the beach, surfing "on't internet" and sporting Christmas garb, the calendar is out-selling others featuring David Beckham and Brad Pitt. Brilliant. It would be great to see those two trying to sell merchandise on the strength of what comes out of their mouths.

And bungling bouncers Max and Paddy, played by Peter Kay and the show's co-writer Patrick McGuinness, will star in a new follow-up series based on the duo's travels in Max's new camper van.

WHAT: DJ Norman Jay's MBE. Co-founder of Kiss FM and legendary Good Times sound system Jay says he nearly missed out on the award as he thought a phone call from Downing Street was a joke, only choosing to reply at the last minute.

It was also thought by Downing Street officials that the founder of the Talkin' Loud label had snubbed the MBE, but he was on tour in Scandanavia at the time.

The first black British DJ to be honoured believes he is also the first of the club generation DJs to receive the award.

His appearances at the Notting Hill Carnival over the past couple of decades now attract up to 22,000 people. Modestly, he also thinks that the accolade was granted because there were awards set aside to keep the peasants happy.

After four decades in the industry, Jay is reaping the rewards of his "services to music and DJing" alongside ex-army officers, several toffs and Mick Jagger.

WHO'S NIZ: Sophie Ellis Bextor, singer of Spiller "Groovejet" fame, and owner of an exotically contoured face and a vivid runaway imagination.

As well as heading the anti-fur campaign, Bextor has been telling the press about how she "lives in constant fear." From the backlash of fur lovers? Or perhaps the worry of her pop career failing?

No. Because she was terrified when her previous band, The Audience, broke up that no one would be there to take responsibility for her actions, and she now has to find a way round her own problems, describing this as a "pretty scary feeling".

At 22 years of age. Behave, and grow up girl, it's called life. But it's nothing that can't be fixed by a gentle ego massage from managers, PR types, stylists and personal assistants.