So I was looking at the Star Wars lego in the flat last night and thinking “I wonder if I could make an animation with this stuff.”

Not having a film studio to hand, I grabbed my digital camera and took some fuzzy shots which I then knocked up into a short movie file while Gordon Ramsay argued with someone on Channel 4 in the background. The result is this dark and blurry Boba Fett animation.

If my rudimentary technology is up to it, I’ll try something a bit more complicated. And hopefully better lit.

Sci-Fi unveils the ‘geek pound’

…they number a seven million strong audience for ad agencies and estimates that the “geek pound” is worth a staggering £8.2bn a year.

No, not when it’s a jar. When’s it’s an “exit and entrance”, specifically on First Scotrail trains.

Passengers safety information is located at the exits and entrances of this train.

Unless I’ve been using the train wrongly (and perhaps I have because I don’t always arrive at my destination on time), there are not separate “exits and entrances”. Passengers boarding and alighting use the same sliding doors, and as the message is intended for those on the train, for whom the doors are no longer entrances, spare us the already overlong train announcements and say:

Passengers safety information is located by the exits.

And while they’re fixing that they might like to look in to the inability of the automated announcer to say “Haymarket”. It’s not a mispronunciation – the word is always completely omitted. As in “This is —” and “This train calls at Linlithgow, — and Edinburgh Waverley.”

It’s not often that I shout at a newspaper but this article in yesterday’s Observer irritated me. Apparently there are calls for mobile phone signals to be jammed in schools in order to prevent “happy slapping” (or “assault” to you and me).

Two reasons why this is a dumb idea immediately spring to mind:

• Kids can still use the video recording feature of their phone even if there is no signal
• This does nothing to prevent incidents outside school (which is most of them, I imagine)

What annoyed me, though, was the inclusion in an otherwise sensible and balanced article of this paragraph:

Since the first attacks were reported about a year ago, their number – and severity – has dramatically escalated. Last week, an 11-year-old north London girl was raped after school by a gang of boys in a home near the school. The footage of the attack was then sent to other pupils by mobile phone.

That has nothing to do with the story being covered and isn’t part of a new craz – it’s a vile sexual assault of the most traditional sort, albeit with an unpleasant, modern twist.

Ironically, the very fact that the perpertrators videoed their attack and sent it to friends will probably aid the police in identifying and prosecuting the perpertrators.