Bishop & Corden at Upton Park
Comedian's John Bishop & James Corden
Liverpool comedian John Bishop managed to find the net more times than his footballing heroes at Upton Park on Sunday.
Bishop and fellow entertainer James Corden (the fat bloke from BBC’s Gavin & Stacey) were allowed onto the pitch at West Ham United’s ground for a kick-around following Liverpool FC’s embarrasing 3-1 defeat to the Hammers, who were bottom of the Premier League before kick-off.
The ball found itself in the back of the net from the boot of Bishop with greater ease than the disappointing performance of the Liverpool team minutes earlier.
John stopped for a quick photo with the rotund Corden, a life-long West Ham supporter, before strutting his stuff on the pitch. The Liverpool-born comedian is quite a decent footballer and had previously played for Merseyside non-League side Southport. His brother Eddie also played for Tranmere Rovers.
The pair were in London filming a new series of A League of Their Own which is hosted by the hefty Corden.
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Oh My God They Killed Kenny
A ‘Banksy-syle’ mural of Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish has been defaced, only days after it appeared.
The red and black painting of Dalglish, from a famous photograph of the legendary number seven looking over his shoulder, first showed up on a derelict site opposite the club’s Melwood Training Ground on Wednesday February 15. Only a few days later it has been destroyed, possibly by jealous rival supporters.
Painted by 19-year-old Liverpool student artist David Cain the image reflected the stencilled style of acclaimed British street artist Banksy.
Speaking to the Liverpool Echo Cain said; “I chose the Melwood site because I thought it would be the ideal location to show my appreciation towards Kenny for getting us back up the table and being a legend.
“I wanted the image to resemble the flags that get waved around the Kop at Anfield with the iconic image. It took me about five minutes to do it, starting from unfolding the stencil.”
Kenny's Banksy tribute defaced
iPhone Nano?
Rumours are abound that Apple might be working on a smaller version of the hugely successful iPhone. While most mock-ups circling around the internet are just of a normal iPhone shrunk down, I think that if the rumour has any legs at all, then it would make more sense for it to look more like the iPod Nano.
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Mobile radio chips are so small now they can fit in a watch, and with Apple patenting technology that would remove the need for a physical SIM card, then the hardware needed to make a phone call is only going to get smaller.
There would be no point replicating the whole iPhone experience in a size smaller than the current form. In fact there are even hints that the next iPhone will feature a larger four inch screen. However, a basic phone could easily be operated using the iPod Nano’s tiny screen, especially if contacts were managed via iTunes or a MobileMe sync.
I can imagine Apple demoing such a device by not having phone numbers for contacts at all, instead just photographs. Imagine scrolling through your phone book contacts just like you do when scrolling through album covers. Tap on a photo of your friend to initiate a call. Perhaps the iPhone Nano would only operate with headphones. This would be aimed squarely as basic device – an iPod that can make calls, I don’t envisage an App Store ecosystem for such a device.
Update: The New York Time are now reporting that sources close to Apple are saying the company will not be releasing a smaller iPhone any time soon. Their information is from an unnamed source who claims to have been briefed on Apple’s future iPhone plans.
The report goes on to say that making a smaller iPhone would be problematic for developers and would fragment the platform in a similar way to the myriad of devices and sizes for Android phones. Developers would be forced to re-write their applications for new screen sizes and it would be difficult for the user to operate.
Steve Jobs has criticised Google’s Android for this; “We think Android is very, very fragmented and getting more fragmented by the day,” Mr. Jobs told financial analysts in October. “We think this is a huge strength of our approach compared to Google’s.”
This would be the case if you were to make a smaller iPhone with a full iOS operating system that could run today’s apps, but I believe an iPhone nano would be a completely new category and would only make calls. This would fit in with Apple’s recent track-record. They said they would never enter the Net Book market, claiming the devices just weren’t good enough. Instead they created a whole new device when they launched the iPad.
