Toms View of the World

Cool little video that’s doing the rounds, the live action version of the Simpsons title sequence.

I only really bother to mention it because I found out about it a few weeks ago, as I know one of the actors involved through the ECC (he’s pictured here in the role of the music teacher).

Other than that, it’s a neat way to advertise the new season of the Simpsons (which is what Sky originally made the video for) and it seems to be “doing the rounds” having recently appeared on SlashDot.

View at Google Video

Following the great work done by SiteAdvisor in rating sites for how much unwanted junk they include with their downloads (think spyware, adware, trackers, “search-enhancers”, toolbars etc) they’ve produced a cool little Firefox extension which warns about sites that they consider “unsafe” with little icons and a statusbar highlight. Another useful weapon in your armoury to keep your PC free of nasties…

http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ie.html

It’s also available for IE (for those who are forced to use it) - for whom it’s probably even more valuable!