A couple of weeks ago, as  the world was gripped with Swine Flu fever (forgive the pun!), a great game emerged on Twitter. Feeling somewhat disillusioned with the mainstream media’s attempt at convincing us we were “all going to die”, a bunch of twitter users began various games based around a swine flu theme.

My favourite game to emerge was the ’swine flu bands’ game, where you had to come up with as many musician/band names that played on words related to swine flu as possible, and tag them with the Twitter hashtag #swineflubands – these could then be viewed on Twitter Search.

I got rather carried away one afternoon and came up with a bunch, whilst laughing my socks off at some of the names that other Twitter users had come up with.

Check out the  #swineflubands I came up with here,  and everybody else’s here.

(Pic: ‘Swine Flew’ album cover by One Bad Pig, originally released in 1990, well before swine ‘09!)

I was happily watching footage of a block of flats in Glasgow being demolished on the BBC News website when I decided to turn the volume of the embedded BBC iPlayer up, and to my joy discovered that the top volume on the iPlayer is indeed ‘number 11′. Spinal Tap fans the world over will be rejoicing, I’m sure!

Speaking of which, the National Geographic channel is airing a new documentary about Stonehenge and recently asked Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel his thoughts on the subject, check out his responses.

“Kid’s Rock” by Tim Hawkins. I love this. Thanks to Rich for posting this first – it was too good to not re-post!

Laura just posted this on her blog and I felt compelled to re-post it. Whispering in adverts is one of my pet hates (it drives me mad), so I’m glad to see Skittles have given it a miss this time.