Do not despair if after 14-years your faith in Guns‘n’Roses is waning. Those of us cautiously eyeing today’s release of the perennially forthcoming ‘Chinese Democracy’ album, can try before we (probably won’t) buy on the band’s MySpace page. myspace.com/gunsnroses
The full Monty And now for something completely different. In a specially recorded video, the Monty Python team have unveiled their spanking new YouTube channel. Messrs Cleese, Palin, Gilliam, Idle and Jones explain how they launched the site to counter low-quality bootlegs. tinyurl.com/5fox2t
For decades, LIFE magazine was home to some of the world's greatest photography. Now, thanks to a collaboration with Google, the defunct publication lives on as a free online photo archive stretching from the 1850s to the 1970s. tinyurl.com/69z8ke
Chicken Wars AdultSwim, the mature-cartoon network, are currently streaming parts one and two of their animation Robot Chicken Stars Wars II on their website. The cartoon is yet another special episode in the Emmy-award winning Robot Chicken series.
A clip of Beyonce's recent appearance on Saturday Night Live is currently the most-watched on the web. In a comedy sketch, the soul superstar miscasts a heavily camped-up Justin Timberlake as her female backing dancer.
CollegeHumour.com have created a fake Facebook page imitating God's
social networking skills at the dawn of time. The mood updates,
relationship status' and application add-ons are all based upon tales
from the Biblical Book of Genesis. tinyurl.com/63uzrv
New Trek Movie fans may (or may not) be excited to know that a new trailer for the hotly anticipated Star Trek XI has been leaked online. The two minute clip suggests the delayed film is aimed as much at tweens as Trekkies. tinyurl.com/5k2l4v
What is it with aging rockers embracing YouTube? First we had Ringo Starr grumbling about fan mail and now Status Quo are rocking all over the web in support of their forthcoming single 'It's Christmas Time'.
Embarrassing online bodies Adolescents squirming while a doctor discusses their body odour sounds like a ready-made online hit. It therefore comes as no surprise that Channel 4's Embarrassing Teenage Bodies website has attracted several million clicks in its first fortnight. tinyurl.com/55kl2o
Online tributes to Miriam Makeba, the singer and anti-Apartheid campaigner known by many as Mama Africa, led to a clip of her most famous song "Pata Pata" becoming the most-watched video on YouTube yesterday.
Following Britney Spears' impressive lead, it appears former US Vice President Al Gore has started using Twitter. The Nobel Prize winning activist is using the social networking site as a platform to voice his environmental concerns. twitter.com/al_gore
Unfinished monk business Monks are usually a peaceful bunch, so the recent news of fist fights breaking out at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is somewhat surprising. Footage of the incident is currently appearing all over YouTube.
If you're a sucker for a fluffy bunny or kitten, you'll love The CuteList.com. The site runs as a news aggregator for sweet animal stories and includes clips and images of everything from newborn baby hippos to angry hedgehogs. tinyurl.com/5cpy5j
Wal(mart)flowering Since their formation in 1962, Wal-Mart have grown from a tiny Arkansas business into a major multinational corporation. Now you can track their staggering growth over the years in a flowing online data-map. tinyurl.com/64a79e
If Birmingham Mail readers found the paper's US election coverage confusing, then a popular YouTube clip may offer some explanation. During an interview at the Obama election party in Miami, journalist Adam Smith seems slightly worse for wear...
For all you philologists and language-based enthusiasts out there, here is an interesting post on the "bookofjoe" blog. It features a map of Europe complete with colour coding to show the relation between the various regions' languages. See it in full here.
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