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This is fun: an Aardman animation to promote the country code.

Download it from here.

From the government’s countryside access site.

(Look out for that seagull with the carrier bag!)

I loved this bit of software:

http://jumpcut.com/

Online video editing. Fab, though I never made as much use of it as I’d intended…

And now it’s going to shut down. Ho hum.

They’re always happy to change titles of films to suit US market. ["Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? pfff!]

But I just saw a poster for new film “Journey to the center of the earth” here in the UK…

“Center”!!

It seems that the localisation process is one way only with Americans… Should this surprise us?

I’ve been saying this for a long time, for anyone who would listen: why do we revere characters in the film “Star Wars” who are essentially using the same thinking as the Islamic (or any other!) terrorists we hate so much. My point being that we should be looking not at whose side people are on but what their methods are. I disapprove of the use of violence by Bush just as much as by bin Laden.

Now finally, BBC Radio 4 has made a comedy sketch which encapsulates this far more concisely than I ever did.

So: Penelope Cruz has a tiny tattoo on her ankle saying “883″.

http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/tattoo/celeb-cruz.htm

And it’s causing much headscratching among commentators. The theory is that - being a numerologist - she is using the symbols for wealth (8) and communication (3) to express a desire for these. With an extra desire for even more money. But does that make any sense? What concerns me is that “88″ was also used in Nazi Germany as a code for “Heil Hitler” (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet). Is Cruz a Nazi?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_salute

Or perhaps she’s an android and this is simply a serial number. Might explain something about her acting?