With several billion web pages out there on the web (not counting podcasts and video), it’s pretty hard work - all that mouse-clicking that's required to surf the web and find good content. Luckily we’re taking the hassle out of it for you with our new weekly digest, Weekend Culture Bytes. Each week’s best arts stories all in one place! Don’t say we’re not good to you.

Truth is stranger than fiction: learn these words and your friends will call you 'wanker' behind your back.

Culture minister Hodge proposes an idea to save libraries, killing off the booksellers Amazon hasn’t managed to yet.

Human nature is eccentric – it’s time to celebrate it, not classify it.

Obama’s Peace prize is less a recognition of his efforts than an insult to Bush.

A poem in defense of Roman Polanski (yes, it’s a joke).

Damien Hirst’s latest works are reviewed with a distinct lack of enthusiasm – he’s only the 48th most powerful figure in the arts these days.

How to become an Internet sensation and get a book deal, too. Self-promotion: Stephanie’s April 2008 recommendation and What Publishing People Like.

Cultural heavyweights weigh in on their favourite Coen brothers’ film and it’s a Coen filmography.

Authors take note: early unpublished work should not be destroyed, how could us publishers milk you (posthumously) otherwise?

Mad Men – for all its flaws – is still one of the best American drama series ever made.

Julian Cope entertains, shocks and offends with his latest missive. Always worth a squizz.

New subscription-based music streaming service Mog calls itself ‘radio without restriction’. Unless you don’t have reliable Internet access.

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