Today there have been many newspaper column inches devoted to demonising the internet in the light of the Beckham rumours (yawn) and yet on World Aids Day it takes a website like metafilter to focus on some pretty serious issues that the mainstream media are all too ready to marginalise.

Related: AIDS cases top 40m.

Mary J Blige's AIDS advice: 'What I think teenagers can do to prevent the disease is to just be educated. It's not a game. Don't take this for granted, don't take life for granted.'