…of machines which do… well, nothing in particular, but if you remember the Great Egg Race, it’s captivating to watch.

Link to google video here

Warning: you could be humming the jingle for the rest of the day too, if you’re anything like me…

Not much, I’ll admit it. A bit of gaming: I’m making good progress in Need For Speed: Most Wantedand the new Tomb Raider demo was actually pretty good, I might have to trade in my under-used copy of Perfect Dark Zero for a copy.

I woke up with a yen to actually make something today and had been thinking about modding the spare Xbox 360 faceplate I have.

A bit of mucking about in photoshop – and the addition of a very handy template for the faceplate that I found on the web – and I have this:

It’s an Invader Zim faceplate – check out the link if you have no idea what I’m talking about

Now, I need to attach this to the Xbox 360. Happily the faceplates are just A4 long so I can print it out, but one problem: paper isn’t quite good enough – the faceplate bends in two directions and paper just isn’t stretchy enough. I notice that these people in the US sell stick-on faceplate skins, and use self-adhesive vinyl to do that. So I’ve ordered some vinyl that I can print on, and will give it a go! Fingers crossed…