Filed under: bbc, bbctwo, geriatric1927, music, mygeneration, thewho, thezimmers, tv, video, youtube
Just watched the very end of the Great Granny Chart Invasion on BBC Two. Looked good. Caught the whole My Generation cover and video by The Zimmers. Great stuff. Go grans hehe. Geriatric1927 should do his own video repsonse cover now (on YouTube). Heh.
Found this clip on YouTube – not on the BBC channel – which I think might be semi-official: it links to their myspace anyway.
Just returned to a cold, wet, miserable London after a very nice wekend in the countryside with family. Sister nearly went into labour. Heh. Surrounded by silage and prams. And lots of shopping.
So I have been having some free fun on iilwy. That’s I’m In Like With You. It is a kind of social network but you make contact by playing games with each other, which basically amounts to Q&As thrown at each other in 23 characters.
It’s a competition, a chase, a game – where you make up the rules of attraction, and you choose the winner. And if you’re playing someone else’s game, send charming messages, photos and video their way – and then bid to show you’re really interested. You have a limited number of points, so the more you bid, the more you’re in like. When the game is over, one lucky winner is chosen. Only then can you trade messages.
It fun! I have a fine collection on my “watch” list. Leave a comment if you want an invite – I think I still have some left.
So there seems to be a reet ole storm brewing over on Flickr. Yahoo has been accused of taking down or “censoring” people’s photos and comments after protests over an Icelandic single mum, artist’s photos being ripped off. Complicated.
But check out this post from the CEO of Zoomr…(Via Spin on Twitter)
Now I am getting more and more convinced* by those who proclaim that this year will indeed be the year of the widget, if this is true. According to TechCrunch, MySpace may be about to snap up a young widget outfit called Flextor which lets people create their own blog badges, if you like, out of their stuff – photos, images, video etc. Sounds like some fun.
Has quite a girlie appeal I feel… Which isn’t always a bad thing btw!
* I keep coming across people talking about them, as well as seeing cool stuff on other people’s blogs.
Er…. people in the Pacific Ocean somewhere are puzzling over this giant slab of rotting meat on the beach. A whale? A giant sea turtle… ?
OR AN ALIEN!!* Well just look at it! As if it just fell out the sky and *splat*.
* It also vaguely resembles what our roast chicken looks like when done in the microwave.
What a great pictoral history of videogames. Not much in the way of handhelds, but very interesting nonetheless.
My parents bought us an Atari with Pong and other games to help me exercise my lazy eyes. Loved it. Via Boing Boing.
Brilliant Pulp Fiction in 30 seconds enacted by bunnies. As the title of this blog post suggests.
Like it a lot and would be the kind of thing I would devour on my mobile I suspect. Via Sofia on Twitter.
Filed under: firebox
Er, supplementary blog post to below’s entry…
Hmm… So on closer inspection, I realise that my Firebox goody bag might have been pre-packed as a “female”version. Perhaps. Not sure. But given the demographics of Firebox, I would hazard a guess that they would not put face cream, hair stuff, a pocket vibrator, and a calendar of Despair* in every goody bag.
Now I like lotions and potions just as much as the next girl. But if I am therefore missing out on some other cool topy or summit, reserved for the lads, I wanna know! If not, then that’s cool too.
At least I have my unisex Playdoh and Jelly Beans!!
*Very apropos.
I just came back, not at all drunk, (seriously – I drank 4 glasses of free wine and don’t feel AT ALL pissed. Really.) with goody bag in hand, from the Ignite Firebox party. I was informed that it had “something special in it (innit?) for the ladies” or something to that effect by the lovely PR gals. But I had no idea until I looked at it on the bus.*
Gosh what a lovely goody bag- air stuff, Stuff, T3, Perplex City cards.** Annnd a Magic Bullet (um – couldn’t find a link to it on Firebox?) and a naughty catalogue! Hehehe. Nice. Just what I need.
Met some good people tonight. Feel rather daft that I did not know or clicked before now that Michael Smith, CEO of Mind Candy (makers of Perspex – rather, Perplex City) also set up Firebox. I have met him at a couple of, well let’s say something silly like web 3.0 type gatherings, over the last year. I like the company’s thinking a lot.
I am in fact quite a loyal and long-time customer of theirs – as in Firebox. They now beat iwantoneofthose.com for me in terms of where I turn first to get those gifts for difficult people and those who you don’t really know very well, but who you feel you should “gift”.
Now I feel even more loyalty to Firebox in a way, because I like what Mind Candy does a lot.
Now, where did that goody bag go…
*Why is it you never see a taxi when you actually make a decision to spoil yourself by getting a taxi instead of the bus??
*Or, Perspex City which I always call it completely accidentally a lot of the time.
This made me chuckle muchly. (via Crys through Skype).
It takes the notion of LOL cats – a meme that has cat lovers and others spilling their milk rofl – to where no man has gone before. See also the Twitter fan wiki for more lolcat fun.*
Live Grenades poses the question we have all been dying to ask:
While this is nice and all, I quickly realized that there are no long-form lolcat works. The closest is Spatch’s wonderful Cat Town, and it’s only a relative to lolcats. That set my fevered brain to spinning: what would a lolcat story look like? What if lolcats had a TV channel? What kind of shows would be on it?
And this is it, a la Star Trek. Pure genius!
*Just seen Crys’ Twitter about lolgeeks!
