Who do you think you are?

Two great links courtesy of Pete:

The Surname Profiler, created by "boffins" (copyright The Sun) at UCL, allows you to search a database of census information to find out the frequency, ethnicity and geographical spread of your surname. According to the 1998 census, mine occurs six times per million surnames - not a great surprise, though its geographical incidence confounded my expectations.

The 50 Most Loathsome People In America - as Pete suggests, the list may be stuffed full of unfamiliar names, but there's still much to admire in the sheer biliousness of it all. On Paris Hilton, for example: "Her continued success as a celebrity famous for nothing, despite the eerie resemblance she bears to the inbred banjoist from 'Deliverance' and a lack of talent so profound that others become duller as they approach her, indicates that something is fundamentally wrong with humanity".