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Aesthetes and purists, look away now. Shakespeare's language has been "strangled in his tears". Or so some po-faced journalists would have you believe. A satirist, Martin Baum, has rewritten 15 abridged versions of the Bard's work, updated into modern vernacular. His book, entitled To Be or Not to Be, Innit is described as a "yoof-speak guide to Shakespeare", and contains well-known works such as 'Amlet, Two Geezas of Verona, Macbeff, and Much Ado About Sod All. Instead of Romeo and Juliet, we are regaled with the tale of Romeo and His Fit Bitch, Jools. There is nothing rotten in the state of Denmark - it is, instead, "minging". Cue a great deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth from traditionalists, who see the decline in standards building an irresistible momentum with this latest setback, and who yearn for the days of an education based on cold baths, classics and the cane. As if the BBC's modernising of Shakespeare and Chaucer wasn...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston usually plays host to the world's leading scientists, Nobel laureates and technological pioneers. But at the weekend it was overrun by more than 500 self-professed "internet geeks". They were attending ROFLCon, a web symposium which attempted to answer conundrums such as why so many people like watching animated hamsters dance, and what is so funny about photographs of cats with misspelt captions. Described as a conference of "internet microcelebrities", it offered an insight into those people who have found a sort of fame - and in some cases, a great fortune - by thinking up the most popular gags, jokes and fads on the internet. These phenomena - known as internet memes - are spread from one person to another in a similar way to viral emails. Even web surfers who do not know what a meme is may have unwittingly acted memetically by passing on a video of a sneezing panda to their friends, for example. (...) The ...

In America, Coachella is the festival to start all festivals. Not only does it kick off their season of outdoor music events, some claim such events didn't even exist in the US before organiser Paul Tollet presented Pearl Jam in a polo field back in 1993. Yet despite being the desert king of festivals, Coachella was afflicted this year by flagging ticket sales , attributable to the fact that My Bloody Valentine did not play a much-anticipated headline slot on Saturday. Instead they got Prince, and what do you know, he blew Coachella's bloody socks off ! Even Idolator, the web's snarkiest music blog, is in agreement that the 49-year-old stole the show . This is thanks, in large part, to his cover of Radiohead's Creep. Who'd have thought that after all those years of refusing to play it out, Radiohead's embargo would be broken by Prince? Enjoy some shaky-shaky footage here . Portishead's glacial trip-hop also proved a hit, with trendster's ...

Comece já hoje a juntar as suas rolhas de cortiça! A partir de dia 22 de Abril (Dia da Terra) será iniciada a recolha nos restaurantes. No Dia 5 de Junho (Dia Mundial do Ambiente) já poderá colocar as suas rolhas nos "Rolhinhas" dos Hipermercados Continente Posteriormente iremos alargar a outros locais.

And I've only seen two upclose... The smallest (!) one here and the current tallest phallic thingy...