Wonderland

Papercraft crates

These are one of those (wonderful) things where you ask yourself, why did it take so long?

Papercraft crates. Seriously useful for masking less useful corners of your home, deadspace, or for creating lifts to difficult-to-access cupboards that contain powerups.

(via BoingBoing)

Lego, it's the future

Roo's hilarious 3-minute talk from this year's Interesting...

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Weblin

This is curious. Reminiscent for me of BBC Connector, the chat-around-content application that my team built back in - ooh - 2002?, in an attempt to let BBC web users chat to each other as they browsed web pages. Weblin works in the same way, overlaying avatars onto web pages whereupon users on the same page can chat to each other.

The great thing about this particular idea is that a web page can become a statement hangout: in Weblin's demo video, the page in question is Joi Ito's, which says something about Weblin's creators (maybe Joi has invested, or maybe the Weblins are just fans?). In the BBC's case, we launched the original applicaton with Radio 1, so users could pick the music page of their choice and - hopefully - find other users with similar tastes.

They have leaderboards; what next, I wonder. Quests? Guilds?

No Wii Fit

Can't find Wii Fit anywhere. It's really boring.

However, I'm in the US right now, for 9 days hol in Cali. If I buy a US version, will it work with my UK Wii, I wonder?

"I am Murloc" for Guitar Hero

"I am Murloc" was the frankly terrible (but hilarious) heavy metal WoW tune chucked up by "official Blizzard band" Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain. Fitbabits over at Evil Avatar says:

The Activision/Blizzard merger was always likely to throw up all manner of interesting combinations, but did anyone really think this would be one of them?

And you thought Peggle was all just luck...

Peggle. Pool meets pinball. Famous for its slo-mo killer moves (or fails). I thought it was mostly luck based. I was wrong!

There's even a How-To...!

(via Waxy)

Sporepedia

Spore's creature creator alone is going to keep many, many thousands of people busy and quiet for many, many (thousands of) hours. It's a shame it doesn't contribute to building schools, or something, imagine the person-hours!

I found "myself" in the sporepedia today, as I was looking for my own creations. Meet Crystaltips! (Not actually anything to do with me of course except a similarity of handle).

Huh :)

Someone's had a go at making Will Wright, too. Miis these ain't.

Eww !

TTP

I just learned a new term via the women_dev mailing list (mostly populated by female games developers, although there are plenty fellas there too): TTP. "Time To Penis"!

Apparently it's oft used in the MMO dev scene, whereby the amount of flexibility in creation given to a user is directly proportional to the Time To Penis number. In Spore's case, apparently the TTP number can be measured in seconds, so much so that there's even a new term for the results: Sporn (link to YouTube, various videos there amusingly NSFW, like this one).

I wonder if this means online play will be limited to something like 15+?

Postcard from Azeroth

In a moment of brilliance (I suspect fuelled by gin), my guildmates Kuya and Tikker (a.k.a. Kim and Anno) sent the guild a postcard each ... from Azeroth.

The postcard was printed using Moo's postcard-maker...

... and it's a treasure!

(Thanks ladies!)

Pyro is a girl

Apparently, Pyro from Team Fortress 2 ...

... is a she!