#4: Nobody else has pointed it out yet (but maybe everyone's well enough on top of things not to be reminded) but you don't need a TV license to watch the iPlayer. At least, according to Ashley Highfield, who could be expected to know:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/01/iplayer_does_not_require_a_tv_1.html

@Cory: Is there time to get a column into the Guardian? This needs a little more main-stream publicity than it'll get even here...