I mean aside from Osama.

Can you imagine Bush making a statement like this?

I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct,”

“That it is possible for some of you to see me today is just another example of the speed at which things are changing all around us.”

Long live the Queen.

Announcing the launch of the channel, a spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace said the Queen “always keeps abreast with new ways of communicating with people”.

“She has always been aware of reaching more people and adapting the communication to suit,” she said.

Our leader talks about “the Google” and the “internets.” Our lawmaker who control the future of the web talk about a “series of tubes.”

What a bunch of maroons.