Web Monitor
16:42 UK time, Wednesday, 9 September 2009
A celebration of the riches of the web.
Web Monitor reluctantly obliges to the readers' demands to explore the seemingly infinite amount of cat and Hitler content online. But first we go comparatively highbrow by pondering celebrities' plastic surgery prodedures.
• Comedian Kathy Griffin has her own reality TV show about her life as a D-lister. After a botched liposuction operation, why, even though celebrities seem to be followed everywhere, we never see them with bandages on after surgery:
"Oh, there's a whole system you need to know about. First of all, the plastic surgeons in Beverly Hills all have secret celebrity doors. After the surgery, you leave the plastic surgeon's office covered in a sheet that's not unlike a burka. Your assistant takes you to an upscale hotel where you hide in a dark room of shame until you're better. There are bandaged rich ladies walking around the hallways of the Four Seasons and the Peninsula in Beverly Hills right now. It's not unlike being a war criminal or a terrorist."
• If you want someone to blame for extending yesterday's rare foray into the usually forbidden online world of cats, blame Dave Williams who emailed in:
"WM - the web was late in realising the publicity value of cats. The late great Alan Coren wrote a book called Golfing for Cats back in the 1970s with a large swastika on the front cover thereby combining the three most popular subjects for books - sport, pets, and World War II."
Web Monitor is not quite sure of the connection between golfing cats and World War II. A more explicit link would be . The site does what it says on the address bar.
Well OK, lets open the floodgates. Send your favourite cat websites in via the letters box to the right of this page. Ho hum.
• The First Post must have recognised Dave Williams' rules of publicity when they came up with the headline, "". Has there been a better enticement to click on a story which didn't involve cats? Oh and here's the story - it's about a viral video of Hitler having sex which tries to get across the message that Aids can be a mass-murderer.
In another Hitler-still-alive make-believe world is the YouTube trend in subtitling a scene from Downfall - a German language drama following Hitler - to make out he's commenting about current events.
Most recent is at Obama's speech telling kids to stay in school and study hard.
In a previous installment when he hears of Michael Jackson's death as he had planned for Jackson to perform at his party.
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