SpriteDance (Developer’s site | iTunes) is an animation-composition app for the iPad with these features:

• Import your own background (called a stage)
• Import your own characters (called dancers)
• Drop characters onto the stage
• Move the timeline’s playhead, create a keyframe, reposition the dancer; repeat.

From there you can export the animation as a Movie in your Photo Album, send to Youtube or save as Quicktime (and save it to your desktop via iTunes File Sharing as a 1024×768 MP4)

Great stuff. But how do you get your own drawings in there?

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In a country far, far away (France) two retired Jedi drop-outs battle for the right of way on the road.

“In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.”

I think this wookie needs a cookie.

A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero.
Made by the office of Charles and Ray Eames for IBM (1971)

The CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) has been given the OK to allow your internet service provider to monitor your upload and download usage and DING you for anything above what they consider normal usage.

True, some users won’t be affected. Those would be the light users: no Youtube, no Netflix, no iTunes movie rentals, no torrent users, no video chatting, Skype or VOIP users.

Everyone else will pay more. Now, I understand it costs these big network companies one cent to deliver one GB of data to you. What do you think you will be charged? Anywhere from $1.15 to $4.00 per GB. Some users who have embraced the future and live a full digital life can expect to pay hundreds of dollars per month: for something that costs pennies.

Take action, Canada. Learn more, write your MP, look for petitions online. We could have the best internet solution in the world, were it not for this and other stupid cash grabs.

I’ve been battling a chest cold, head cold and sore throat for over a week now and the moment has come when I’m feeling very sorry for myself. Miserable, pathetic, lethargic with a touch of ennui. In short, I feel like death warmed over. It’s a long shot but if someone could buy this LEGO set for me and have it sent to My Sorry Ass Laid Up On A Couch, then know it would go an extremely long way in making this flu-hell tolerable: because I’d be building the LEGO Death Star. Thank you, that is all for now.