Muppetocracy: What would you do if you lived in a futuristic society where the government controlled access to sweet and crispy between-meal snacks? Would you rebel? Would you promote anarchy by means of a masked alter-ego? Would you become Cookie Monster for a parody of the V For Vendetta trailer? Would you ask rhetorical questions? Featuring an all-star cast of despotic and/or freedom-fighting muppets, plus shaving, singing and dancing, C Is for Cookie (on YouTube) at http://tinyurl.com/qltka.

Keeping it: You might remember a few weeks back when KeepVid rocked everyone’s world by making it easy to save Flash videos to your computer for later, Web-site-free, viewing. Hear that sound? It’s a paradigm shifting without a clutch: VideoDownloader, created by Javi Moya, is a Firefox plugin that does the same thing, but without copy-and-pasting. Next, you’ll be able to violate copyright psychically. Please don’t tell me you’re still using Internet Explorer at http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/.

Comments? Michael Citrome