We Didn’t Start the Flame War
Month: April 2009
As Web Watch asked in our DISNEYLAND PARK PLANNER iPHONE APPLICATION article a few weeks ago:
“One would only hope that they’ll follow this up with appropriate apps for Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySEA, Universal Studios Hollywood, New York City subway trains, or any other amusement park, event, travel, or entertainment facility that would benefit from the social technology that the iPhones and similar devices make available.”
And now the floodgates have opened as more apps just like what we described have begun to arrive:
Looking to kill about ten minutes of free time?
Why not challenge your friends and neighbors to beat your best time at ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED?
All you have to do is move your elephant through 100 different tasks on the maze-like screen.
April 23rd is TALK LIKE SHAKESPEARE DAY.
It’s just like TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY, but more obscure. April 23rd is Shakespeare’s birthday.
Be sure to check out the offical TALK LIKE SHAKESPEARE website for suggestions and tips on how to talk like Shakespeare. Here are just a few of the things they suggest you do, to really sound like you know what Shakespeare would say today:
BROKEN PICTURE TELEPHONE is a free web-based party game, a variation of the old “Telephone” game you played as kids at a 5-year-old’s birthday party at Shakey’s Pizza back in the day.
The Telephone Game was where everyone would sit around the table, and the first person would come up with some silly tongue twister or crazy saying. They would then whisper the phrase to the person next to them, who would then have to whisper it to the person next to them, and so on and so on until the last person says whatever was whispered to them. The hope is that the original phrase will make it around the table intact, but it never seemed to work out that way.
Broken Picture Telephone (aka “BPT”) is sort of like that, but with a twist:
New Idea magazine has an article about an Australian family where THE DAUGHTER BREASTFEEDS HER FATHER.
It may sound a bit unusual, but she has a legitimate reason to do so.
27-year-old Georgia Brown has two mouths to feed: her own eight-month-old son, and her 67-year-old father, Tim.
LEGO ROCK BAND has been announced for Christmas 2009 release.
The announced songs include:
- Blur: “Song 2”
- Carl Douglas: “Kung Fu Fighting”
- Europe: “The Final Countdown”
- Good Charlotte: “Boys and Girls”
- Pink: “So What”
If you were wondering what a LEGO ROCK BAND video game would look like, it could look something like this:
As we’ve all seen the local news stories during sweeps week, or on practically any episode of CSI – some hotel rooms can be filled with nasty germs and bugs.
That’s where THE SLEEP SACK comes in.
You always see a few people in the airport, carrying their own pillows with them. For them, either the hotel pillows are never good enough, or perhaps there’s a hypo-allergenic reason to bring one’s own pillow with them.
And while travellers often fear the pillow bug, for the most part, one never thinks much about the hotel room’s bed linens. Sure, the coverlet may be a little nasty, but you’re not supposed to use that as a blanket anyway. Just throw the coverlet on the floor like everyone else does. The sheets should be clean, right?
Right?