The runaway viral success of the 'literal' video version of A-Ha's 'Take On Me' - 1.75 million views and counting - has spawned a whole genre of literal-minded video spoofs.

Here's U2's 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For', overdubbed to include the observational lyric: "There's The Edge, he's a cowboy".

Here's Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Under The Bridge' (sample lyric: 'Turn the purple light real low/Is that Will Ferrell?')

Tears For Fears' 'Head Over Heels':

And finally, in an example of the internet swallowing its own tail, here's

Spencer Elden, the "Nirvana baby" who appeared naked on the cover of 'Nevermind' in 1991, has attracted a fair amount of derision from bloggers for recreating the iconic image (only this time wearing swimming trunks).

Now a 17-year-old high-school student, Elden is evidently proud of his minor place in rock history – perhaps a little too proud. Rather than play down his involvement, he's fond of making self-aggrandising statements such as: "It's creepy [to think] that that many people have seen me naked — I feel like I'm the world's biggest porn star."

Elden even admits he uses his one-time status as music's most recognisable infant to pick up women. "I have to use stupid pick-up lines like, 'You want to see my penis ... again?' ", he told MTV. The charmer.

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I've seen some opportunistic rock n'roll tat in my time – from 50 Cent condoms to a toothbrush that plays Queen songs - but the Mighty Boosh action figures currently available from Forbidden Planet plumb new depths. This, apparently, is supposed to be Vince Noir and Naboo:

Who buys this stuff? I've never understood the law of commerce that decrees that when an act reaches a certain level of fame, an action figure must be rushed into production.

In the world of heavy metal you can sort of understand it, because with bands like Kiss and Iron Maiden the iconography and sense of playfulness is integral to the music. But why would any sane individual want to own figurines of a glamour-free indie band like The Magic Numbers?

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Chin-stroke corner: Radiohead's 'Nude' reinvented by a series of jazz artists.

Calling all 'Family Guy' fans: now you can 'Quagmire' any website – ie cram it with lurid sexual outbursts - at quagmire it.com (I just tried it on NME.COM – I never thought I'd see Kele Okereke quoted as saying, "You know what I discovered last night? Women have a fourth hole!")

Unbelievable medical conditions - including the woman who has 200 orgasms a day.

'Rolling Stone' magazine's 100 greatest singers of all time.

100 movie spoilers in 5 minutes.

10 worst places to get caught having sex.

Juvenile time-wasting game: QWOP Olympics - think 'Daley Thompson's Decathlon' only much, much harder. And funnier.

'Arrested Development: The Movie' is 'go'.

New Vampire Weekend cover: Plastic Bertrand's 'Ça Plane Pour Moi'.

Check out my band's debut album. We're called Shatter and the record's called 'Who Enjoys The Least Pleasure'.

I'm lying, of course. I have no musical talent whatsoever – and I hate squirrels.

However, thanks to a smart little viral game that's been doing the rounds, anyone can design their own debut album. Think of it as a Web 2.0 version of the time-honoured 'What's your porn star name'? game.

The rules are simple:

1. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random.The first random article you get is the name of your band.

2. Go to Random Quotations.The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3. Go to Flickr's 'last 7 days' function. The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Put it all together, that's your debut album.

Email your efforts to festivals@nme.com - we'll publish the best examples here on Bored At Work.

Crystal Castles are certainly proving there's more to this set-up than eliciting gasps and onstage antics as they make history again this week. However, this time round it's not down to us, but a low budget commercial.

Freshly crowned NME's coolest individual of 2008, Alice Glass' outfit are now the vocals behind the soundtrack of the world's first ever Timesculpture ad with track 'Air War', courtesy of Toshiba.

The trailer you're about to watch used over 200 Toshiba camcorders. For those of you with the photographic eye, the film's concept is to manipulate "moving shots of time" - a technique initially made famous by ‘The Matrix’.

All this has been done to promote Toshiba's new range of TV and DVD's that convert standard tellies to higher definition. Fingers crossed this ad does the trick.