Daily Mail-o-matic - My favourite so far: COULD IMMIGRANTS GIVE BRITISH SOVEREIGNTY CANCER?

These guys really do have too much time on their hands

Full video here

Gotuit, is a very slick Flash based YouTube.

There are a couple of really sheet features:

• The whole interface is build in Flash so you can browse and watch at the same time
• You can zoom the video and it hardly misses a beat

It’s still beta (of course) but there are also a few things they could do with fixing:

• There’s no scrubber control on the video
• They’re already trying to make money out of it (fair play) but the rather obtuse choice of ads is off putting, Vidal Sassoon before a skate video, I mean come on!

It sounds unbelievable but, someone has invented a spray paint that’s magnetic, think chalk board paint, but, magnetic!

There’s a very interesting write-up on Windows media vs. Flash Video, the nice thing is it’s objective. Just try and ignore the rather lazy design.
I mean I can scream and shout with the best of them about how rubbish every other format is, but my opinion is only partly based on exprience.

Hard to work out where the CGI ends and the reality begins.

The Glue Network have built the foundations of a virtual bridge around the world. A number of big name corps have signed up to donate a dollar for every mile.

Check out my mile:

Undoubtedly this is being blogged around the world as I type.

No idea who might have done this, a friend suggested Micro$oft, which is doubtful.

At time of posting www.netscape.com is displaying an alert box simply saying “fuck” followed by “hi to all you Diggers out there ;)”

I can see 2 outcomes, Netscape sue the ass off the employee that thought this would be “funny”, pay the $10 million ransome to the anti-capitalist eastern european hacker collective.

Lets wait and see shall we.

class Proximity extends MovieClip {
public var proxRadius:Number;
public var clips:Array;
public function Proximity() {
}
public function scaleProximity(clips:Array, proxRadius:Number, fade:Boolean):Void {
for (var i:Number = 0; i < clips.length; i++) {
var scaleBuffer:Number = proxRadius+100;
var xMousePos:Number = _root._xmouse;
var yMousePos:Number = _root._ymouse;
var cx:Number = clips[i]._x;
var cy:Number = clips[i]._y;
var prox:Number = Math.round(Math.sqrt((xMousePos-cx)*(xMousePos-cx)+(yMousePos-cy)*(yMousePos-cy)));
if (prox < proxRadius) {
clips[i]._xscale = clips[i]._yscale = scaleBuffer - prox;
if (fade) {
clips[i]._alpha = proxRadius - prox;
}
} else {
clips[i]._xscale = clips[i]._yscale = 100;
if (fade) {
clips[i]._alpha = 0;
}
}
clips[i].onRollOver = function() {
this.swapDepths(_root.getNextHighestDepth());
};
}
}
}


And then in the fla, I call the scaleProximity function on an enterFrame:

var p:Proximity = new Proximity();
p.clips = [prox1, prox2, prox3];
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
p.scaleProximity(p.clips, 150, false);
};


It’s a nice slim-line class that can be re-used quickly and easily, I’ve been able to use and modify it quickly on a couple of projects.

Enjoy.

Thy Dungeonman III, Behold Yhy Graphics