Scratch your own multimedia

MIT's Media Lab have created a free programming tool called Scratch. It allows anyone to create their own animated stories, video games and interactive artworks by easily blending images, sound and video. (I see nothing about text.)

BBC News report
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6647011.stm

Scratch
http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/llk/scratch/