Saturday, February 14, 2009

TERRAHAWKS: THE MOVIE


You may have already seen the story of Saltlake City's Lee Redmond, who lost her world-record breaking 2ft+ long nails in a car crash (if not, go to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7889890.stm). You may also be aware that Terrahawks the movie is in the pipeline (something the DG is truly excited by). If any casting directors are reading, please do consider Lee for the role of Zelda. She's the spit. For a little bit of a nostalgia-fest, check this out... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hgHvOH9mJA

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

HOW TWEET

I have been a big fan of Twitter ever since seeing the beta version about 18 months ago (the one with a 2D map of the world – a bit like virtual Risk with California heavily over-indexing on the troops). But while one has eyes on many pies, the Daily Geek is careful who to throw its passions at – there’s only so much love that the DG has to go around. Twitter, however, is too intriguing, enlightening, adorable and intriguing not to be a part of. That said, a pal of the DG let me into a little secret t’other evening. He and his chums on one of Britain’s best-selling newspapers had pulled together a cracking feature called “Twatter” – a lowest-common denominator but highly amusing spoof about “them celebrity saddo’s wot use the internet”, hauling some of Twitter’s more famous users over the coals. I thought it would have been hilarious, but the lawyers spiked it at the last minute. So, today’s lesson is: always create a fake p9 to get it through legal.