Just loved this so much I had to repost – thanks thingamabob for the link. Hadn’t heard of Miranda July until I saw this. She’s cool.

Over 5 years after it was initially launched, I’m happy to have a new version of Montage-a-google up for people to play with and enjoy. The new version has many of the features people have been asking for over the years:

• Saving montages – It’s now easy to download a jpg of any montage you create.
• Resizing – You can now make a montage as big as you like by simply resizing your browser window.
• Bookmarkable – You can now bookmark or send a direct link to a specific montage.
• Speed increases – I’ve been able to make many speed improvements with the port of the code to ActionScript3. Resizing and changing the tile size is now over 10x faster.
• UI improvements – Montage-a-google is now easier to use than ever.

I hope you enjoy playing with the new version of Montage-a-google. I look forward to your feedback.

Vimeo’s Auto Tuning video has been online for a couple of months now, but it’s still giving me joy. I thought it was worth sharing on the off chance someone’s missed it – although I suspect you need to be in the web-design scene to fully get it.

Lyrics:

Moon Buggy Honeymoon
Grant and Lorin’s Wedding Present Song

Hey there Lozza and G, freshly married and busting with glee
I suggest one thing for your honeymoon, why not hoon with a buggy on the moon?
Relax about rock cavities; you can jump real far in moon gravity
Forget about flying saucers, your buggy has space mortars
When aliens spot you zipping along, they pause and they say:
“Our cruisers can’t repel firepower of that magnitude”
So sit back and enjoy the ride, and by the way,
Congratulations guys!

Bloody good effort Lozza and G
You’ve got yourself all married
Quite a clever move by you guys
Cause now you’ve got a friendship that the police will recognise

Congratulations
From here on in the church will bless your romancing
And even though this is written beforehand
I’m pretty sure the party’s gonna be awesome
But now it’s time for moon buggy adventuring

Moon buggy time go on get in
Time to take one for a spin
Guess who’s your driving instructor?
It’s Yoda, Jedi Master!
So yo Yoda, what have you got in store on the honeymoon moon cruise today?
“Things you will see, other places”
That’s sounds awesome, let’s cruise!
“Patience!”
But we’re ready to go…and you know what happened to Anakan when you held him back

Lunar navigation in your moon buggy
Starlight constellations make it easy to see
Women are from Eastbourne and men are from Timaru
We’re all in this together when we’re cruising on the moon

There’s no coverage for your iPhone
But Willis came along so you will never be alone
On the moon he’s no ordinary pet
He’s a galactic cosmic space cat!
But now it’s time for moon buggy adventuring

Yo Yoda, how about a solo on that space organ!

But now it’s time for popcorn and ice-cream

Yoda would just like to say one more thing
He said he’s checked his user interface, and that marmite is better than vegemite because it’s got more force in it
And he also said there is no one ring to rule them all…but then he winked.

If you’ve ever played the boardgame RISK you’ll be familar with the gameplay: take over the map by moving your troops from territory to territory, the bigger the territory the more extra troops you’ll get from it. But where RISK is turn-based and slow, Galcon is realtime and pure frenzy. In this way it crosses the line into what can only be described as “action-strategy” – an ever-elusive gaming genre that’s so hard to get right, but so good when it’s pulled off.

While Glacon is a fun single-player game with a few different modes to keep things interesting, it’s in multiplayer mode that it really shines. The unpredicability and emotional involvement of human adversaries makes the game endlessly replayable. So far I’ve always found plenty of online opponents, and because of the game style you never have to wait long for a game.

Although I rate Galcom as the best game out there for the iPhone at this time – Rolando is due out soon, and judging from the trailers looks set to be extremely entertaining and popular. We’ll have to wait and see.

I’ve often thought that games are good at teaching you how to code, because they force you to identify and order game rules and rule patterns in your brain. But this fun little puzzle game called Light-bot literally gets you thinking like a programmer by requiring you to string together movements into reusable functions to complete each level. Oh and I’m stuck on the level above, can a real programmer please help me!

UPDATE: I managed to get past this level eventually, of course I was looking at it all wrong. Out of interest, this was level 10 of 12, so it’s a fairly short game and well worth putting aside half an hour or so to have a play with. I managed to get through the whole game by only using 185 moves – if you can beat that you’re bloody legend!

Over the past few months I’ve been plugging away at a new project of mine called Make it Share it. It’s a website that lets you easily make a drawing or animation and put it up your own website, blog or profile page.

I’ve worked on a few personal and client projects in the past that have involved drawing tools. They’ve all been really fun to work on and especially fun see what others create with them. I also noticed that although there’s a few drawing tools out there I couldn’t find any that let you create cell-based animations in such a simple way.

One of the things I’ve aimed for with the site is to have as low a barrier to entry as possible. This extends to the drawing tools, the sign-up process and the overall usability of the site. I’ve made it so new users to the site can just dive it and create an animation or drawing and save to the site without having to sign up. After they’ve saved their creation they can decide to sign up or not.

So why not check out the site for yourself. I hope you have as much fun with it as I have had making it.

This from the seller:

“When I opened the package. The phone was on. There were no cute buttons, no touch screen… Instead, there was a blurry image of Steve Jobs burned into it.”

More info here. Pity it was pulled by eBay. Why I wonder? If only Fake Steve Jobs was still around, I’m sure he’d have a thing or two to say about this.

Although I’m a sucker for just about all Star Wars parodies, this one has got such a great twist to it it has to be shared.