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Today in Web Monitor: the skills of the messy, the perplexed gameshow host and the inspiration for American Psycho. Share your favourite bits of the web by sending a link via the letters box to the right of this page.

• There is no shame in having a messy house, - quite the reverse. His self-confessed messiness has helped him cultivate some uncelebrated skills of agility:

"I'm bad at repairing stuff or organising repairs, but I'm actually rather good at coping with things that are broken: the main light in my bedroom hasn't worked for years but, panther-like, I can negotiate furniture and piles of clothes in inky blackness to find the bedside lamp. The door handle comes off if you try to use it, but I've developed a burglar's knack of getting in by inserting my fingers between the frame and the door - I can do it in my sleep... Among the vices, why has domestic vanity so completely outstripped laziness?"

• Vernon Kay wonders who is actually surveyed on All Star Family Fortunes, his own gameshow. For the uninitiated, Kay puts questions to teams of families and they give what they think would be the answer 100 people surveyed for the show would answer. "I sometimes wonder who the 100 people surveyed are" to which he responded "me too."

• The director of American Psycho that Christian Bale based his portrayal of the lead character on Tom Cruise:

"We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he [Christian Bale] called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy."

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