4×07: Trending Topics and Guitar Heroes
Chris, Brady, and Jay get together for over 30 minutes of complete and utter randomness! Or so it appears from the beginning. Also, Nicholas pops in requiring you to buy something.
Topics covered this week:
- Bob Barker and Trending Topics
- Extract
- Gamer
- Jennifer’s Body in Jennifer’s Body
- Guitar Hero 5 andBeatles Rock Band
Twitter Battle!
I didn’t even bother reading this. I laughed and linked. Ashton Kutcher challenges CNN to Twitter popularity contest.
Enjoy.
Twitter Security
For all you twitter peeps out there, you might be interested in something Business Week posted today about how Twitter can be used as a venue for transmitting malware, and what you can do to stop it.
As the article mentions, I already have my computer set up to verify all TinyURL links that pass through my browser, but there are so many other URL-shortening sites out there, like is.gd, twurl and snurl. is.gd, which I use religiously, doesn’t have a preview option available. It would be nice if they did.
Another great article, coming from CSO Online, reinforces the short URL issue and brings up a couple more that we should be aware of.
2×04: Discussions on Watchmen
Jay V and Brady pull in Chris and Nicholas for nearly an hour of talking about the latest comic book-based film, Watchmen. Consider it making up for lost time. Also mentioned: the graphic novel, Watcher in the Woods, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, lack of squids in the movie, Night Man, and more!
Note: This episode has more adult language than normal.
Chris, besides About 12 Minutes contributor, maintains Kariyanine Online, where you can read his post on Malin Akerman being hot.
Nicholas blogs at We Laugh at Catastrophe (among other places), though he hasn’t posted his 90+ master list of giant squid quotes.
2×01: New Year, New Volume
With a new year comes the first episode of Vol. 2, and Jay V pretends to live-tweet and then tells you his New Year’s Resolution
The Twitter Chain
In case you don’t know, Twitter is the latest popular social messaging forum. You just sign up, link it to your phone†, and you’re in! You can:
- follow your IRL friends online
- follow online friends online
- find out what they’re doing or what they’re thinking (or sometimes, annoyingly, with whom they’re conversing)
- meet new people
- and more!
- also, you will have a ton of fun in the process
I’m just testing something right now
I set up a “update Twitter” plugin to send an update to Twitter whenever we post something on the site. Hopefully it works.
Check us out, add us at twitter.com/about12minutes.
