Category Archives: media

no more scrabulous?

17 Thursday Jan 2008

Posted by in media, miscellany, scrabble

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Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous

Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble.
The Facebook add-on has proved hugely popular on the social network site and regularly racks up more than 500,000 daily users.
Lawyers for toy makers Hasbro and Mattel say Scrabulous infringes their copyright on the board-based word game.

This seems rather poopy of Hasbro and Mattel. I’d bet that out of those half a million daily users on Facebook, most of them already have the board game, or have since bought one as a result of Scrabulous.

I sure hope this won’t affect email Scrabulous! 😕

house series 4

09 Wednesday Jan 2008

Posted by in media, television

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~ note to nursemyra … this is my idea of eyecandy ~

The first episode of the fourth series was on TV last night and it was fabulous. The writing is as sharp as ever and I didn’t actually miss the three characters that ‘resigned’ at the end of last season. In fact, I think they had probably run their course and a shake-up like this was what the series needed for it to stay fresh.

Funny how hearing the theme music come on made me realise how much I’d been missing this programme. I got all nostalgic, especially as it was my first foray back into television watching last February, after about 15 years.

No spoilers please! 🙂

chapter and verse

28 Friday Dec 2007

Posted by in media, religion, television, video

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I’ve spoken here before about my West Wing addiction…

Have recently finished all seven series and am now rewatching them to use as a teaching tool with a couple of my students, which means I have to come up with questions for each episode. Today I got up to episode 3 in series 2 and loved this scene so much I wanted to use it on a debate forum on h2g2 … and hey, there it was on Youtube. And now here it is for you. 🙂

sid in the city

16 Sunday Dec 2007

Posted by in art, blogging, culture, friends, humour, media, politics

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Blog buddy John Pangia has just been interviewed by the Star Ledger, the largest newspaper printed in the state of New Jersey.

I’ve been hooked on Sid in the City ever since I came across one of John’s fab graphics while I was looking for a good image for my ‘poison popcorn!’ post.

Do read the Star Ledger interview and then stop over and check out what Sid has been up to . . . it’s quite fun and funny stuff. f_ok.gif