highfive.me.uk

It's been a long time since the highfive.me.uk blog was updated, so here are some overdue announcements on updates to the site.

First off - thanks to all the people who've been e-mailing with high five related information including:

• Ernie who told us about the Thunder Five;
• Jonathan Cho who let us know about the High Five Enthusiast sketch on Saturday Night Live;
• Martin Ray who filled us in on the details of the Double Tap and another as-yet unamed variation of the high five;
• Cathy Pratt who enlightened us regarding the use of the term "High Five Slut", and the 'tarded five;
• George Lohse who told us about a high-fiving slug in the film "Flushed Away".

There's also been some other high five related news since the last blog post:

We fought the law - the law won

We never regarded highfive.me.uk as being a controversial website so we were quite surprised when on 19 March we got the following e-mail:

I note that a graphic on your website www.highfive.me.uk makes novel use of the famous BSI Kitemark symbol as part of its centre-piece:

As you may be aware, the Kitemark symbol is a registered trademark protected in law and its use is strictly controlled - this does not extend to the form of graphic shown above !

Please remove our registered trademark from your website and any other media with immediate effect and let me know that such action has been taken.

Thanks and best regards,
Richard Moore
Technical Development Manager
Accreditation Maintenance and Development
BSI Group

The offending graphic in question is the high five kitemark that we used to have on the homepage. We were unsure whether it was actually possible to infringe on a trademark if you're not carrying on a trade, and whether the fact that our server is in Germany would allow us to keep on ripping off BSI.

However we thought it better to ditch the kitemark symbol rather than lawyer up and "stick it to the man". If anyone's an intellectual property expert and fancies giving us some advice feel free! Or if you're an artistic type and feel like desiging a new logo to denote the international standard for high fiving we'd be most grateful too.

National High Five Day 2007

April 19 was National High Five Day. Highfive.me.uk had a rather lacklustre National High Five Day this year sadly - being busy with work/exams. However I did rustle up a High Five Day Countdown Widget for Mac OS X users (to anyone who downloaded this previously: this version actually works and doesn't tell you there are 65,000 days until the next NH5D!).