Author: Carrie

  • Is this legal?

    My knowledge of media law – or at least, the bits that don’t really apply to my particular niche – is rather rusty, but isn’t there some law that prevents identification of suspects? Today’s Sun can’t be legal, surely? [photopress:0__2006581734_00.jpg,full,pp_image]

  • A missed promotional opportunity

    The Sun’s been uncharacteristically reticent in its coverage of the Suffolk murder arrest: while describing the arrested man’s internet profile and quoting liberally from it, The Sun neglected to mention that the “social networking site” in question was MySpace. What, I wonder, would prevent The Sun (prop. R Murdoch) from naming MySpace (prop. R Murdoch)?

  • Wii will rock you

    David brought his Wii round at the weekend. It’s genius. Sheer family-friendly, great after lots of wine, makes your wife say “we need to get one of these” genius.

  • Too old, too ugly, too far away

    Bah. From the Girls Aloud mailing list (of course I’m on it): Want to take part in the next Comic Relief view with Girls Aloud and Sugababes? We are looking for guys and girls of every ethnicity to take part in a Girls Aloud vs. Sugababes music video! You need to be over 16 –…

  • Does it hurt when you Wii?

    Best blog headline ever? I think so. Anyway – BBC Radio Scotland’s MacAulay & Co show is doing a piece on Monday about Wiinjuries, so if you’ve smacked yourself silly while playing Wii Sports then I’m sure they’d love to hear from you.

  • Photoshop CS3 beta due out later today

    And it’s looking nifty. The beta will be available for Windows and Mac, and the latter version is apparently very fast on Intels. Update It’s out, but you’ll need the serial from a legit copy of CS2, production studio, web bundle or video bundle if you want to run it for more than 2 days.

  • More Dianaballs

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  • eBay: Dianaballs

    With crushing inevitability, eBay’s pulling auctions of tickets for the Diana concert. eBay says it’s out of respect for the dead Di, but of course it’s out of respect for eBay’s corporate image: if the usual rentagobs hadn’t caused a blizzard of publicity – “eBay’s profiting from cloth-eared sentimentalists!” – they’d have left the auctions…

  • National Elf Service

    My brother has hilariously stuck my photo on to a dancing elf. Mrs Bigmouth’s reaction? “Hahahahah! That’s how you dance!” I hate Christmas.

  • Blu-ray player is a “piece of shit” but gets a good review anyway

    Idiot Toys have cut the fat from a Blu-Ray player review to point out a few fairly major flaws: “Pushing the power button, the BDP-S1 requires 12 seconds to display ‘Power On’” “Another 35 seconds elapsed for the player’s alphanumeric display to read ‘no disc’ allowing the drawer to be opened and a movie BD…