Playboy's Miss May 2007 Shannon James took the Howard Stern route to centerfold celebrity: she appeared on Howard's show awhile back and was picked for a month of stardom by one of Playboy's editors. Thankfully, Howard also advised her against "inflating her assets", so we actually get a very attractive Playmate who is also fully natural (well, maybe except for that hair color). Shannon's a very pretty college student (excellent "schoolgirl" pix, with super-short plaid skirt!). The pix in the May edition you'll find on newsstands are okay, but you can see much more of Shannon over at PlayboyPlus! They've already got a big batch of high-resolution photos and every week in May they'll be adding more pix - and hot videos starring Shannon, too! Gotta love the way we can see more - and more revealing - stuff starring babes like Shannon thanks to PlayboyPlus! And, of course, members also get 24 hour a day access to pretty much every photo and video Playboy made starring all the previous Playmates, including superstars Pamela Anderson, Kelly Monaco and Jenny McCarthy! [ABR: 97.4].

The cover girl for the May edition is late Playmate Anna Nicole Smith (also known as Vicky Smith in her early Playboy days). Inside they've re-published some of Anna's most memorable photos and some words of remembrance from Playboy luminaries. Perhaps a bit tacky to put her on the cover, but handled with reasonable sensitivity. She was outrageously hot in her Playboy pictorials, making us wonder how things might have been if she'd just stuck with getting naked for the camera.

This month's "Playmate Xtra" (that's the month-long, online-only series of photos and videos starring a past Playmate) features Miss July 2002 Lauren Anderson. You may remember (but probably not) Lauren as the winner of a "Who Wants to be a Playmate?" television show. Lauren's looking very good and, amazingly, hasn't yet succumbed to the lure of the plastic surgeon's scalpel. Tons of new pix and a new video or two each week this month!

PlayboyPlus members also get the exclusive CyberGirl of the Week and CyberGirl of the Month features. April CyberGirl of the Month Samantha Harris (above) is a very, very, very cute redhead with a drool-worthy body. We're not usually big fans of the "behind the scenes"-style video, but Samantha's (especially in hi-def!) had us scratching to climb through our PC monitor! There's also new CyberGirl of the Week four or five times a month (funny how that works out). Vote for your favorite "CGOW" each month and maybe you'll see a lot more of her as CGOM later in the year. All those CyberGirls make a trip to PlayboyPlus like getting a new Playmate every week instead of only once a month!