Starcraft II & TDs

I, like many others have been eagerly anticipating the latest Blizzard release Starcraft 2. I have been looking forward to the game but more importantly I have been eagerly anticipating the custom maps from the community.

I used to spend hours and hours playing the custom maps released with Warcraft III, I still log in every now and then to check out how its going and am suprised every time to see people still making new maps. Some of the most popular game genres in existence today wouldn't be around if it wasnt thanks to be map making community in WC3. Genres such as Tower Defence (TD) and Defence of The Ancients (DOTA) were born there.

So it made me extremely happy to see this video on YouTube showing that yes custom maps are possible in SC2 and yes you can make TDs with them, horaay!

The Fifth Element Fan? Watch This!

Its no secret that im a sci-fi fan and The Fifth Element is my favourite film. Watched it again in epic 1080p BluRay quality last night. Went poking about on Youtube afterwards and found this little gem:

I didnt even know it was possible to reach notes like that let alone move between them so quickly.

Incredible Particle & Physics Video

Saw this post on Gizmodo and thought I would share on my blog as I think its incredible.

Its a a physics engine called Lagoa and its by Thiago Costa, check it out:



Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 - Teaser from Thiago Costa on Vimeo.

Fixing Old Posts & Uploading Videos

I just realised the other day when I was trying to show someone some of my old projects that half of my old posts are broken.Videos are missing, download links gone, images half broken. Basically the thing is a shambles.

I can only assume that things have gone whoops during the various moves this site has had over the years.

So over the course of the next week or so im going to go back through and fix all my old posts and make sure everything is working again. I would greatly appreciate it if you could drop me a comment or an email if you see any post that is still broken and ill take a look at it. Cheers!

I have started by uploading a load of my old videos to Youtube and Vimeo (stupid YT 10min limit).

If you are interested I have included them all below the jump:

Only In America...

While over in California this month we saw some rather interesting things. Thought I would share them.

Only in America..

..can you buy 4 Litres of wine for less than $8

..can you buy a sandwich bigger than your head

..can you buy weed from a doctor

..can you drive to the shops in a Monster Truck

..can you buy gifts and guns in the same shop

Back From Outer Space

.. well California actually but im just listening to abit of Prodigy so I thought it appropriate.

Was over for just over two weeks, hired a car with Toni and went-a-road-trippin. First few days were down the coast from San Francisco down the Big Sur to LA. Then from LA accross to Vegas, then all the way back again.

Apart from a parking ticket (who knew you have to park in the same direction traffic is flowing?!) everything went pretty smooth. Toni is still over there, will be for the next 6 weeks, hitting the research with the very clever physics bods over at Berkly University.

As usual the holiday snaps can be found on my Picassa Web Albums page, but here are some highlights: