The president of the United States, George W. Bush, has been banned from sending emails during his term in office, with officials citing security concerns. That's all about to change once he's termed out of office — soon friends and supporters can expect a steady stream of "You know you're a redneck when" forwards, links to GodTube videos, and the like. It's only a matter of time before he sets up a Facebook profile and starts Twittering, which I'm pretty sure was predicted in Revelations to be one of the signs of the impending rapture. (Photo by AP/Ronen Zvulun)

Godless Gothamites, meet GodTube, which according to the Times was the Web's fastest-growing site when unveiled in August and which just garnered a $30 million hedge fund investment. It's sort of like YouTube, except all videos are pre-screened by site operators in Plano, Texas; you can't promote religions other than Christianity and you can't mock Christianity, which makes sense since "God" is obviously synonymous with "Christian God" (*cough*). The whole operation is of course destined to implode when the new hedge fund investors push for less censorship to goose traffic and ads for items a bit more risque than "Bible software and degrees from online universities," but in the meantime enjoy this GodTube clip of a man "caught" looking at porn by Jesus. (In the interest of religous plurality I did run a seach for "porn" on JewTube and the only hits remotely responsive included one titled "Neil Diamond And Carol Burnett", which I refuse to watch, and this video of two Jewish supermodels in bikinis backed by a Biggie Smalls song.)

Online video site and social network GodTube landed $30 million from private equity firm GLG Partners in the company's collection plate, which values the startup at $150 million. The company sells subscriptions to its "Godcaster" service that enables online video sermonizing, as well as secular and religious advertising, and has plans to offer a white-label social network to churches. [PaidContent]