Here’s a new little Twitter game for you:

1. On Tuesdays, tag someone whose tweets you admire on Twitter on a given subject.
2. Mention the @person in your tweet and the #subject with a hashtag.
3. In your tweet, tell them that “they’re it” and now they should tag someone else with the same tag (give a link to this post to explain the game – the short URL is http://thelink.is/tt).

The general format of the tweet should be something like:

I love @aral’s tweets on #ux

Tag, you’re it! Now it’s @aral’s turn to tag someone (see http://thelink.is/tt).

#tagtuesday #tt

Here’s an actual #tagtuesday tweet from earlier.

Why?

The idea behind the game is to create a fun game of tag where we discover a chain of people with interesting tweets on different subjects via recommendations from other people. If it takes off, it could provide a nice breadcrumb trail others can follow to discover interesting new Twitter peeps.

Tag, you’re it! Now go tweet your #tagtuesday!

I just tested it out (in rather low light too, it's early morning here) while standing on my white throw-rug and it worked like a charm! It didn't work as well on my pine floor with bare feet so make sure you're standing somewhere with lots of contrast (or buy a white throw-rug, they're great!)

Upsies! works on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 with iOS4.

Lovely idea, beautifully executed and currently on sale at 99 cents/59 pence: Check out Upsies! for iPhone and get those legs moving!

If it had been any other time, the very first of the pale-faced, putrid undead would have stuck out like sore thumbs in polite society and been hastily disposed of by the city’s overfunded and underutilized (and thus rather bored) police force. End of story, as they say. As it was, however, the first victims of the highly-infectious RNA virus that transmogrified otherwise mild-mannered accountants and supermarket checkout clerks into flesh-hungry zombies blended in perfectly with the less ravenous participants in the Fifth Annual Zombie Pub Crawl, providing entertainment for the onlooking crowd as they attacked each other and caused all manner of mischief. Some in the audience even remarked at how real the screams of the other zombies sounded before adding their own to the rising cacophony as the infection spread from flesh to flesh. And that is how it came to be that the zombie horde swelled its ranks as it made its way through the previously-uncannibalistic (and sometimes even sunny) sea-side town of Brighton.

It was October 31st, 2009 and the zombie virus had picked the gay capital of the United Kingdom to make its debut. Not that it mattered. The virus didn’t discriminate.

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I only found out when I recently started seeing reports of an uproar over the DRM system.

And what an uproar it is: Thousands of disgruntled gamers are giving one-star reviews for Spore on Amazon (and Amazon UK). They are also reportedly buying the game and then returning it, in order to inflict additional financial damage on EA. The Metacritic user score for the game also stands at 5.0 after falling steadily in the past few days.

In other news, the cracked version of the game, without any DRM restrictions, is apparently available for free on BitTorrent.

So, as always with DRM, it is the paying customers that get burned whereas the pirates get a superior product for free.

I'm just wondering when these companies are going to realize that their customers are not the enemy.

By the way, I just checked and the box for Spore Galactic Edition does not contain any indication that the DRM system limits you to three installations so it's understandable that I didn't know about this before buying the game.