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Cube World
Posted on December 1, 2005, by Darren, under Personal.
I have a brand new toy to play with… and it’s called Cube World.
CW consists of 2 cubes (per pack) that house a little stick man. Each man has a different personality, a bit like those Tamagotchi units from a few years ago. Nothing special about that you might think, but these guys are a little different because the cubes they live in can be joined together… to form a bigger environment for them to live in. (Click the image above to enlarge it).
Magnets on the top, bottom and sides of each cube have magnets on… and when attached to another cube, they both talk to each other, a little buzzer noise goes off to alert the stick men, one of which then passes into the other cube to interact with the other man.
The ‘interaction’ normally consists of a fight… or a hug… or some other random act. When in their own boxes they keep themselves busy and entertained. One (Scoop – Orange cube) has a dog, and the other (Slim – Purple cube) has a stick.
They pace around, spin round, jump, high-five, fart, dance, levitate, scratch themselves, and can even be sick if you shake the cube around as each one has a motion sensor inside. In fact, if you hold the cube flat, then turn it 90 degrees the man tumbles over as you spin it, bouncing off the walls. Once he has picked himself up his head will throb and he’ll shake his fist at you (which normally spurs you on to do it again to him!). Even the items in each cube can swap and interact, as Slim can throw his stick for Scoop’s dog to catch. Once the dog catches the stick he walks through the cubes and takes it back to Slim. Brilliant.
The other thing great thing built into them is a game mode, which involves the item they have in the cube with them (the dog and the stick in the two I have). Once in game mode you control the stick man – with Scoop you have to keep the ball away from the dog to score a point and with Slim you have to use the stick to pull yourself up over a monster that crawls along the floor).
These things are great fun and well worth getting – there are 4 different ones to collect (Dodger and Whip are the other two – red and yellow cubes) and 16 cubes can be connected together which all give unique animations and moves the more you add. Rumour has it that if you stack 4 or more cubes on top of each other the stick men will perform a bungee jump right through the cubes! Wicked.
They are available from Firebox.com
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Searches
Posted on November 16, 2005, by Darren, under Personal.
What is it with people?
I’ve already made it quite clear that the bandwidth for the Smartphone wallpapers has been used up this month, mainly due to hotlinkers. But, alas, people are still trying to search this site looking for the images!
Hello! They aren’t on this server… they live here Tetra-2000 – or at least they do WHEN THERE IS BANDWIDTH! Notice the site doesn’t work? NO BANDWIDTH LEFT = NO SITE!
Also, someone is currently running an automated search on this site to try and find images, namely of ‘jakki degg’ (or ‘jakki fdegg’ as the cretin has set-up). It is running around 1000 searches every 10 minutes.
If its you – stop it! I already have enough problems with bandwidth as it is. If it carries on I’m going to pull the plug on the Smartphone wallpapers all together. I’ll bin the lot – images, hosting, domain – ALL OF IT!
I honestly can’t be bothered to waste time and money on it all. Here’s one last reminder :
SMARTPHONE WALLPAPERS WILL RE-APPEAR ON DEC 1st WHEN THE HOSTING IS SWITCHED BACK ON!
Thanks.
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Comments
Posted on November 6, 2005, by Darren, under Personal.
Comments to my posts have been a ‘little’ slow so far, so why not drop me a note or some feedback on anything you’ve read here; or even if you have any requests for a particular Smartphone Wallpaper you’d like me to make.
Thanks.
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A little bit of meat on the face…
Posted on October 26, 2005, by Darren, under Personal.
Only a few weeks to go now before I go and see Ross Noble live. For those who’ve not heard of him before, he’s a brilliant Geordie comedian here in the UK and he’s as mad as a box (the title of this post comes from part of his act).
He has a couple of DVD’s out (Unrealtime and his new one called Sonic Waffle) which are well worth getting. I can’t wait!
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The Sidebar
Posted on October 25, 2005, by Darren, under Personal.
It seems my WordPress sidebar is playing up in IE (it’s dropping to the bottom of the page). 
Now, normally I wouldn’t care too much as I’m a big Firefox fan, but my stats say there are still a lot of you using IE (or at least have the IE useragent).
Please bear with me over the next day or two while I try fixing it. Cheers.
EDIT: Sorted now. I’d made the ‘Technorati Tags’ box (below) CSS class too wide, which pushed the sidebar to the bottom of the page.
I never noticed this in Firefox as its clever enough to sort it out on the fly. I hate IE. Sorry to anyone viewing the duff-looking site over the past few days.
