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...Thanks to a ferocious Facebook campaign launched by Jon Morter, a 35-year-old part-time deejay and logistics expert from Essex, and his wife Tracy, the Californian punk group Rage Against the Machine's 1992 hit "Killing In The Name" was propelled to the top spot on download sales of roughly 500,000, beating out X Factor winner Joe McElderry's cover of Miley Cyrus's "The Climb" by 50,000 copies. It was the first time a group has topped the British charts based on download sales alone. (See the top 10 songs...
...This year, the Morters received some serious help: in addition to the half a million or so fans of their "Rage Against the Machine for Christmas No. 1" page on Facebook, British comedian Peter Serafinowicz urged his 268,000-plus Twitter followers to join in. Even Sir Paul McCartney signaled his approval in an interview with Sky News, saying "it would be kind of funny if Rage Against the Machine got it [Number 1] because it would prove a point," although this didn't stop the former Beatle from appearing with McElderry on The X Factor finale earlier this month...
...given them - and others - an unexpected boost. De la Rocha confirmed the band would perform a free concert in Britain next year to celebrate their chart win and is giving all the proceeds from the sales of the single to a homeless charity called Shelter. The Morters' Facebook page also includes a link to the charity's website, which has helped it raise $112,000 so far. What's more, Cowell has even acknowledged the power of the Facebook campaign, days after he complained about it, telling reporters, "I think the campaign's aimed directly at me; it's stupid...
Harris-Moore, 6 ft. 5 in. (1.96 m), has become a legend in the Pacific Northwest - T-shirts bearing his face or the words "Fly, Colton, fly" are big sellers in Seattle - and on the Internet. His Facebook fan club has 8,000 members, and a hokey ballad on YouTube sings his praises. Harris-Moore's supporters see a deeper meaning to his popularity: During hard economic times, they say, why not celebrate a poor boy who robs from the island vacation homes of Seattle's dotcom gazillionaires? But Harris-Moore apparently steals just as often from Camano's ordinary...
...endless architectural possibilities provided by a tub of Legos: six bricks fit together in 102,981,500 ways. Will any of this season's hot toys leave marks so deep? Or would strapped parents do better to remember the toys that changed them and go looking elsewhere? (Facebook users, comment on this story below...