Brilliant new animated video from NMA World Edition depicting the NOTW as a pirate ship with The Guardian ship firing broadsides at it, Rebekah Brooks walking the plank, the Labour Spitfire shooting down the BSkyB deal and Murdoch destroying the NOTW galleon with a missile launched by the NI airship. Brilliant! They have excelled themselves this time. Where's the Brit NMA?

We believe it's customary to issue "trigger" warnings for contents such as the following. At least it's pretty gross - what you will see in the video are COWS that secrete HUMAN milk and the whole think will probably make you feel a little bit SICK. We're sort of hoping for a follow-up post in a few days telling us that the whole thing's a hoax.

Anyways - the Frankenstein cows have been grown from embryos (cow ones, that is) that have been injected with the human gene responsible for producing breast milk. Now they're lined up in some farm in China, and pending approval from the government, the resulting liquid may be found on sale in supermarkets in three years.

Apparently, the milk is anti-bacterial and helps boost the immune system. Early testers say the drink is "stronger and sweeter" than regular milk.

*shudder*

[via The Hairpin]

Seems like some people have been thinking up rude names for their playlists on Spotify: as the music service has gone so far to explicitly ban it in their new End User Agreement. The document states that you can be withdrawn from Spotify Social if you are found to be writing rude things.

"Examples of unacceptable behaviour include, but are not limited to: giving playlists offensive, abusive, defamatory, pornographic or obscene titles;" [section 11]

I wonder what people were doing? In the interest of investigation I just made a playlist called "Fuck this Shit". That seemed to be fine. Plus lots of songs have really rude names so I guess the bar will have to be set pretty low...

Anyone been blocked for these reasons?

Related: The cut to Spotify Free makes the service worse for paying users too

Think you've eaten creme eggs every which way already? Think again buster as you ain't see nothing yet. As a bank holiday Easter treat we found this recipe for creme eggs benedict. Don't worry though, there's no actual hollandaise sauce with this recipe just pure sugary sweetness.

All Savoury ingredients are replaced with the likes of doughnut, brownie, melted Creme Eggs , and a topping of rich frosting (that's American for icing). For the full recipe click here.

This recipe was found as part of collection of 13 of off-the-wall creme egg recipes on Buzzfeed.com, click here to see the rest.

We like to report on vampires here, as well as consumer technology, and above all, we like to encourage people to go to the dentist.

So naturally we are delighted to see that the NHS have adopted some kind of Twilight-parody to encourage young men to go to the dentist.

Great - don't tell them it's actually young women who dig the whole vampire thing. If it encourages more young people to like vampires that's good enough for us...

Some people are crazy. We know - we saw them queuing up outside the Apple store 10 minutes ago, frothing slightly, at the mouth.

Hundreds queued outsite the store in Regents Street, London despite the fact that within five minutes walk of the flagship shop, iPad 2s were sitting undisturbed on shelves in places like HMV, The Three Shop and PC World.

Inevitably, someone queued overnight, and lots of people pushed back and forward. There was even someone who already had an iPad waving it around filming other people going into the store to buy more iPads. Someone got thrown out. It looked like a photographer trying to break the line and get in early. (Doesn't he know there are already lots of pictures of the iPad 2 on ShinyShiny?)

We asked TechDigest's Gerald what he thought of the whole affair.

"I thought things were getting a bit rough when I saw someone coming out of the store with what i thought was blood all over his face. Unfortunately he just had bad skin."

Any other comments Gerald?

No, he doesn't have any more.

What's new? People like to buy gadgets. I suppose it's a good thing.

This year sees a lot more small business starting up online and many of these new businesses are started by women.

Brit start-up Moonfruit helps small businesses and amateurs build websites. They updated their site yesterday and we interviewed their founder - Wendy Tan. What she told us about Moonfruit is interesting for anyone wanting to set up their own small website, but her observations about Moonfruit's customers paint an interesting picture of e-business in 2011.

I'll review the service in a separate post (link to come) - but here are just a few of Wendy's observations about what website makers want:

>> More people want to build websites for small businesses. Whether it's the recession pushing people to find new ways of improving business, or the success stories already on there: more small business are going online. That looks set to continue - Wendy only had figures for America, but there the vast majority of small businesses are small businesses and only 90% of them have an online presence. There's a lot of room for growth.

>> Small business want to build their websites themselves: they don't want to pay someone else to do it, and they don't want to have to pay someone else to update it.

>> People want a high level of customisation over those websites - businesses are less content to use off-the-peg templates and stock photos.

>> The Mummy Blogger effect on business: A lot of those new e-business are started up by women: Wendy put that down to lots of bright women at the peak of careers suddenly having to spend time at home on maternity leave, or looking after kids. Wendy: "female entrepreneurship is our fastest growth area, women are interested in stuff they can do from home." It's happened with bloggers, it's clearly happening with entrepreneurs too... there are several high profile success stories too: net-a-porter for example. Watch this space.

>> The Apple effect: people are used to better design, thanks to the boom in Mac products so they expect to be able to do more and make their sites look better. Wendy described this as the "Apple Effect".

>> The Facebook effect: Blogs are more in demand - Wendy put this down to our increased comfort with publishing online on social networks.

>> Mobile sites are vital - Without needing to be apps - sites need to be optimised

>> Tactile, easy: call this the iPhone effect as well - but people are used to very simple and intuitive interfaces for doing things online. Looking at screeds of html is no longer an option..

Review of Moonfruit site coming soon

Moonfruit works on a Freemium model: the basic deal is free, then there's a 3GBP a month deal, and a 15GBP and 20 deal for more professional users.

Feeling a bit pasty after all these months of winter? Well there's an app for that ... sort of. The TanningBooth app will let you tan yourself using a handy bronz-o-meter, so you can impress your friends on Facebook and Twitter with a fresh, sunned face.

Yours for 99 cents, the app works on all mobile devices. You can also use it on your dating profile photo, commentators helpfully suggest, pointing out how real life tanning is not as safe as it was in these ozone-scarce times.

The app comes with a warning by the developers though: "TanningBooth effects that may leave you with an abnormally 'hot' picture, don't be alarmed if you get extra 'likes' on Facebook or 'followers' on Twitter than normal."

We'll be sure to keep that in mind.

For all you lucky Android phone owners out there - the iBoobs app is back.

The app, which lets shake the breasts of the ladies in the pictures, was booted out of the Apple App Store back in 2008. But it seems Android has since seen sense and brought this glorious piece of software back to life.

The app comes with "shake control" and the ability to change the weight and gravity of the brests in question. On Android Market the app will set you back £1.29, and there's also a handy preview video. It's more in the "cringe" than "sexy" category, mind ... as you'd expect.

I've seen mobile phones marketed and described in thousands of different ways but never once have I seen them described as wormholes through time and space, but that's just how cyborg anthropologist Amber Case sees them.

And it's a beautiful idea. In a talk at TED Case outlined her realisation that phones work like wormholes through time and space that transport us, not physically, but mentally through space.

You're not in Ecuador, but if you both have phones you can talk to someone there at a moment's notice. You can listen to messages from the past, and through Facebook and twitter you can interact with other people's online personae, regardless of whether that person is there or not.

I mean, I don't see the wormhole comparison making Sony Ericsson's marketing strategy anytime soon, it hardly makes much distinction between a top smartphone and a mid-ranking feature phone but still it's a fascinating look at this technology that has revolutionised everyone's lives.

See Amber Case's TED talk here

It hasn't been easy for Ken these past few years, living without the perfect doll companion. Barbie left the smooth-looking fellow around this time seven years ago, following a 43 year-long relationship. Now Ken is hoping she will reconsider in time for their would-be 50th anniversary.

Ken, or should we say his creators at Mattel, have set up a website where interested parties can cast their votes on the matter. Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare and YouTube has been heavily used in the campaign to get us involved. Whether or not this will sway you depends, but the newest Ken doll is supposed to be "the ultimate boyfriend, as he says whatever you want him to say".

It might be time for the two to get back together, after all that is the spirit of the season. Ken has taken stock of his life and "revamped his mind, body and soul, while Barbie ... well she has a deeper tan, at least. A match made in heaven? It's up to you.

It's not just the people rioting on the streets of Cairo that the Egyptian government is trying to subjugate - it's the people on Twitter and Facebook.

Social media has been one of the first targets for the regime trying to regain control of its streets. It just shows how important social media is for people organising themselves against any government and shows the revolutionary consequences when politics and social media collide.

Riots in Tunisia, Iran and to lesser extent London have been extensively covered on Twitter and Facebook. It helps sympathisers to follow

If you're interested in live accounts of what's going on - go to the hashtag #jan25.

Thanks to @Xeni of Boing Boing, and a few other sources, these tweeters seem to be some of the ones worth following:
@EthanZ: Protests continue in Cairo despite heavy police crackdown. I'm following @alaa, @weddady, @waelabbas, @gr33ndata, @Hisham_G...

Just how good are you with your YouTube Trivia? Check out this chart by designers Ibraheem Youssef and Paul Parolin, in which the Top 100 videos in the history of YouTube have been condensed into recognizable icons.
For the full rez version click here. Also leave us a comment to let us know how many you get

Did you know that the cute little 'Mozilla Firefox', isn't actually a fox? It turns out it is in fact a red panda. To help clear up this massive confusion, Mozilla in a stroke of marketing genius, has adopted a family of firefoxes and are streaming their every move by webcam for the whole world to enjoy.

Firefox LIVE features six cams following two female red panda cubs, their parents, and their aunt, all of which live at the Knoxville Zoo.

In a bid to make sure this is one of the best marketing ploys ever, they are giving the baby firefoxes a treat every time enough people download Firefox 4. They already gave them a jungle gym, next up is grass flats... You wouldn't want to be the one to deny these little guys of their next treat would you?

You can check out the cubs in action here

Ever wished you had your own version of Doctor Who's trusted sonic screwdriver?
It seems the ultrasonic engineers at Bristol University and The Big Bang: UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair, do. The two recently teamed up, finding inspiration for their latest experiments from the much loved television program.

Ultrasonic engineers at Bristol University and The Big Bang teamed up to uncover how a real life version of the fictional screwdriver - which uses sonic technology to open locks and undo screws - could be created. Bruce Drinkwater, Professor of Ultrasonic, has been leading the project and stated that by operating the waves at frequencies way beyond the realms of human hearing, they can be used to apply forces to objects. They are currently looking into how ultrasonic waves can be spun at high speed to create a twisting force similar to that of a miniature tornado, which could undo screws remotely. They have also been experimented with rotating ultrasonic force fields which would act like the head of a real screwdriver.

It may still be some time before Doctor Who and DIY fans have their own sonic screwdriver, but it seems ultrasonic technology is already making its mark in the medical and manufacturing arenas.

So this might be one of the more sappy things I have ever written about, but who doesn't love a modern day love story, especially one that harnesses the power of the Internet.

The video was made by a young romantic named Walter May and his roommates (who also happen to play in a band) for his girlfriend who recently moved across the country for school. May uploaded the video to YouTube with the hopes that the video would organically reach his girlfriend through tweets, blog posts etc.

Through this grand romantic gesture May hopes to show his girlfriend that they "can feel close without having to be close every day," No news on whether May's girlfriend has seen the video yet.

Okay enough twee post from me... promise

MSN launched 15 years ago today, an era ago in internet time. They have set up a little site to remind us all what what 1995 was like. Pretty weird is the answer. Apparently people fancied Cindy Crawford.

MSN also decided to ask people what they thought the world would be like in another 15 years and predictably they got a hell load of really weird answers. That is what happens when you ask the general public things. Among the MSN users' predictions for the 2025 are:

- 49 per cent think unemployment levels will have risen by 2025
- 48 per cent think Prince William will supersede Prince Charles to be King
- 22 per cent think humans will have set foot on Mars
- 40 per cent of men think 'Moob' surgery and genital enhancement will be commonplace
- 41 per cent of women think they will be able to try on clothes virtually before purchasing them online

OH DEAR GOD.

Silly surveys aside, MSN was pretty seminal to the web experience in the 90s and early 00s.. I don't know if you spent your adolescence IM-ing people over this or not, but MSN set the precedents for our instant chat culture today as seen on Facebook, gmail and apps like Blackberry Messenger.

See more of the future according to MSN here

What would make you possibly want to do this is beyond us, but Fredrik Hjelmquist purposely swallowed a pill that contained a wireless sound system in a rather unusual publicity stunt. Unfortunately, this is not a joke, he really wanted to become a human jukebox, right down to allowing you to pick the songs that play inside him from his website.

He swallowed the gutPod (as he refers to it) to publicize "tailor made" wireless sound systems his company makes. Personally I am not sure I will be lining up for a gutPod anytime soon.

You can watch Hjelmquist explain why he did this and watch him install his wireless sound system in the videos below. Also check out the size of that pill. It looks like something more fit for an elephant!

The wonderful Brooklyn-based indie band Au Revoir Simone, are the latest to jump on the interactive music video trend with for their new single Knight of Wands.

The video premiered online yesterday on a dedicated Flash website, is part interactive colouring book, part music video. Once you click "Play," you are taken to a coloring book page which featuring band members Heather D'Angelo, Erika Forster and Annie Hart standing in what appears to be something out of Scooby Doo. There is a pallet of colours to the left that allow you to add a splash of colour to this haunted house. As you paint, a ghost flies around the room, and various objects become animated once filled in.

The video was directed by Eli Stonberg and illustrated by Chris Sanchez. It is a clear attempt to make their audience interact with music in a new and innovate way. By allowing the listener to directly interact with the music video, they encourage them to become a part of the world created through Au Revoir Simone's lyrics.

Over all this video is another great example of how the music video is evolving, as the web continues to grow as an entertainment destination and technological capabilities expand.

You can check out the video here