A little soapbox for me to stand on and rant from.
I stumbled across a flash game called Auditorium last night. It is an awesome game, combining physics, particles and music to make an addictive puzzle game.
The graphics are fantastic, each completed level looks like a living bit of abstract art. The first few levels (called acts) are available for free. I’m really tempted to shell out the $10 to get access to all 15 acts (about 70 levels).
Click here to play or click here for more info on the game play
Oh so much prettier then the G1 and has a virtual keyboard to boot. Those who have played with it seem to love it.
I want one and it looks like I’ll be able to get one since Vodafone will be releasing them here in New Zealand!
Joy joy joy…
Just came across this animated movie due for release end of next year. Its called “9”. It is based on a short animated film and is been produced by Tim Burton. The voice cast includes Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, John C Reilly, and Christopher Plummer.
I really love the animation style and the design of the rag doll characters. Here is the trailer:
I came across this t-shirt site a few months ago called Threadless, not only do they have some very cool T-shirt designs but they are all user created.
The idea is that you design a T-shirt, upload the design and if it gets lots of votes then its gets printed! Better yet if you design gets chosen for printing then you get $2000 cash and $500 of vouchers.
So since it is a bit rainy today, I created my first t-shirt design and submitted it.
_[Updated]: alas my design got bounced back as needing some tweaking so it is now in critique mode. Check it out and let me know what you think: http://www.threadless.com/critique/34044/Hello_waveform_
Fantastic chart showing what the last 12 US presidents did in their first 100 days in office:
Well things seem to be heating up in the Android world…
First off the new version of the SDK (0.9) became available. The APIs have undergone some rather radical changes since m15 but apparently they should be mostly stable now. Its going to take some serious work to get Bubbles! up and running again.
Next all sorts of leaks about the first Android handset (the HTC Dream) starting popping up on the Internet. Gizmodo have some spy pictures of the phone, it looks good but not iPhone sexy. I think the slide out qwerty keyboard is a good idea but it doesn’t help the devices looks.
Google also posted some information about their content distribution system which will be the Android equivalent of the iPhone’s App Store.
“Developers will be able to make their content available on an open service hosted by Google that features a feedback and rating system similar to YouTube. We chose the term “market” rather than “store” because we feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to make their content available. Similar to YouTube, content can debut in the marketplace after only three simple steps: register as a merchant, upload and describe your content and publish it.”
It certainly seems that getting an Android application out into the wild will be far easier (and less expensive) then an iPhone application.
And lastly, today the Android team posted the Android Developer Challenge Winners gallery showcasing the final 50 apps and the winning apps. Some pretty interesting application here.
Its going to be interesting to see how Android and the HTC Dream do against the iPhone tsunami.
The BBC has an article on the peace sign, which recently turned 50 years old.
What was really interesting was its origins, apparently it was created as a symbol for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the the 1950s. The designer (Gerald Holtom) decided to combine the semaphore symbols for N (for Nuclear) and D (for Disarmament) to form one of the most widely recognised protest symbols.
Very nice, using “military” symbols to form a anti-war sign :)