Background
January 1997... I'd been writing Java for a while when I decided it was time to do something cool. Garrett Palm, one of my friends, got a poetry board for his birthday. He called me and said he wanted me to make him a Java version. I did it but I just wasn't satisfied, it was no better than any of the other applets I'd done. I decided then I wanted to be able to load and save (which you can't directly do with Java applets), so I did that. Then after that I wanted cooler buttons, so I did that. I just kept adding things to it and it's kinda my testbed for new Java components I write.

How to Use
The idea behind one of these magnetic jumble poetry boards is that you take magnets and put them on the board and move them around and spell cool things or make poems or make stories or whatever you please... the problem is that once somebody else comes along they mess yours up. This applet lets you save your creations so other people can come and load them.

The Applet

Things to Note

• The words are out of order on purpose, it's too easy otherwise....
• Save your creations with your email address in parenthesis at the end, any characters, including spaces are allowed in the file names.
• Hold the mouse over one of the buttons for a while (see the shine? ooohhh.....)
• throw a magnet off the side of the board, it'll go to the bottom of the list on the left