Living here in my black hole away from popular culture I had to ask who this Montana girl was, but after you exposed me to that hideous paper-cut 70s sitcom I know to stay as far away from anything with that name as possible. Forget all foreign policy matters, it's because of stuff like this that America has poor standing in the rest of the world! To borrow a description from Charlie Brooker, you could just take that scene unedited as an Al Qaeda recruitment video.

Whitney's getting LittleBigPlanet for Christmas - from what I've seen of it it has a great presentation style, and having Stephen Fry in it can't hurt either. The only thing I have about physics games like that is that even though it's the big thing of this generation, game physics are still dreadful - in everything I've yet seen, "realistic" weighted models still twitch around like they've got vibrating hamsters stuffed inside before coming to a rest and occasionally spontaneously shoot miles up into the air if clipping into other things gets to the point where they're not sure what to do.