Petitions, Reviews and Things

The petition to get QI shown in the USA by BBC America is now approaching its second big milestone; 2000 signatures. It has already surpassed the number of signatures that succeeded in getting the first DVD released but many more will be needed to convince a network in the USA. Please do keep encouraging your friends and fellow fans of the show to put their names forward in support.

Once again, the important links:

The QI Petition
The Petition Homepage
The QI Website Petition Homepage (new)
The Facebook QI Petition Group

Also, if you have yet to buy it, the QI Annual 2008 went on sale yesterday. There's a review on the way from MinervaMoon next week (QI Fanatic receives a name-check in the book so it wouldn't be proper to have an even more biased review than normal). Click Here to order your copy from Amazon.co.uk for just £7.79!

There will be more reviews on the way soon. QI Fanatic is currently digesting Justin Pollard's The Interesting Bits: The History you Might have Missed with a review sure to follow. Click Here to buy your own copy. Don't forget that the Interactive DVD will be released on the 26th November so the Quite Interesting Blog will soon be buried in reviews. Pre-Order Here (make sure you watch Stephen's little advert if nothing else). If you think you're missing any QI goodies, go to this new list on amazon.

Facebook users will be pleased to know that QI's Rolling News widget (which you can view in this blog's side bar) is now available as a facebook application. It's already received nearly 450 subscriptions so it is well worth adding. Click Here.

Finally, blogger has a nice new feature which will allow you to receive email notification when posts are commented on after you have made a comment - a particularly useful feature if you have a question to ask. There should be a small box you can tick when you open the comments page.

QI Rolling News - Widget Update

QI's Rolling News has proved a great success since its inception only 6 months ago. The Rolling News Widget, supplied by Widgetbox, has also been very popular. It has now received more than 100 subscriptions. An example of the widget can be seen in this blog's sidebar.

The widget can be placed on websites, blogs, facebook and myspace profiles (as well as many other social networking sites). It provides a good method of displaying links to all of the latest QI news stories in a small graphic.

Facebook users may be pleased to know that the widget will soon be available in the form of an application on their profile via the widgetbox application.

You can subscribe to the QI Rolling News Widget here.

Some Quite Interesting Widgets

As some of you may already know, you can get my blog in widget form. It's a nice graphic that fits snugly into your website's sidebar with links to the posts on this blog. It updates automatically. Now you can also get a widget that will display an updated list of Rolling News stories on your website from QI.

I've already added one in my left hand sidebar (doesn't it look nice). If you would like a widget just like it for your own website/blog go here. You can even change the style to fit your own website. All that you need to do is click "get this widget" (register if you are not already), add it to a panel and then install that panel on your page. If you're using blogger (like me) you wont even need to copy and paste any code.

If you want to get the widget that displays links to posts on this website then go here and follow the same steps described above.

Rolling News Review

2 months ago QI started its Rolling News feature. The newshounds have been hunting down the most interesting stories from across the Internet and here are the best ones that we have found so far:

Kite Ban Lifted - Grizzly

The world's most dangerous sport - kite flying makes a return in Pakistan. An update of the festival in February here.

Grumpy Bears Stay Up Too Late - Frederick the Monk

We've covered lots of weather stories this winter, many caused by this year's El Nino. Russia's warm winter has even stopped the bears going to bed.

Here be Dragons (in Chester) - Eggshaped

The virgin birth at Chester Zoo.

Craggy Island Football Championship - Dr. Bob

Fans of TV show "Father Ted" invent an interesting solution to a dispute between remote islands.

Frangland - Grizzly

In January we discovered how close France and the UK came to a union, for the second time.

Don't buy Blu-ray if you want to watch porn - Dr. Bob

One pastime that could yet again determine the outcome of the format wars.

Canni-balls - Eggshaped

Art???