Holy crapola. Check out this guys Etch A Sketch drawings! All I have to say is that guy must have an awful lot of patience. One spill and it's all over, and forget about going back! There's no undo button! What a frustrating medium it must be to work in! Mad props to you, Mr. Crazy Etch A Sketch Doodler!

Give it a try with this Etch A Sketch online.

How does it work?

Ever see a computerized Etch A Sketch?

I should have known by the title of the site that I'd be hopelessly addicted to the games hosted there. I've been playing Words at 2Addicted.com for a couple days now and I am sad to say that I still suck. My highest score was 549.

Here's a variant of the game link which I also suck at but can't stop playing. I keep thinking if I play long enough, I'll get better, but the longer I play, the worse I suck!

Can you beat 549? C'mon and show me yer leet skills!

Ever want to know what religion your favorite superhero believes in? This website is dedicated to providing an accurate listing of the religious affiliations of fictional comic book characters.

Some Top Super-Heroes:

• Superman - Methodist


• Spider-Man - Protestant


• Batman - Episcopalian/Catholic (lapsed)


• Wonder Woman - Greco-Roman Classical Religion


• Captain America - Protestant


• The Hulk - Non-Religious


• The Thing - Jewish


• Daredevil - Catholic


• Wolverine - former atheist


• Elektra - Greek Orthodox

Just in case you haven't seen it yet... Live Action Simpsons Opener

Here is a site that contains an enormous encyclopedia of mythical characters from A to Z representing many different eras. Who knew there were so many gods!? Now I don't feel so bad for not being up to par on my Greek mythology because I've been taught only Christian mythology all my life.

Also, the search feature is oh so nice. Oh yes, and don't forget the quiz. I'm a sucker for the quizes.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Lorem Ipsum plus a generator... I'm such a dork for liking this.

When I was a kid, I'd play with Legos for hours. Techeblog presents their Top 10 Strangest Lego Creations. You gotta see some of this stuff! While you're there, check this out too: Lego Mac

Google Mars is pretty neat, indeed! They provide a shaded relief map that is color-coded by altitude, It also points to mountains, canyons, dunes, plains, ridges and craters in true Google maps fashion. What's cool is that each of the pointers offers an article that tells about that particular place on Mars. Keep up the good work, Google!

I stumbled upon a site displaying this beautiful lamp made of paper and couldn't take my eyes off of it. It was created by Kouichi Okamoto and is produced by Kyouei Co. Ltd., Japan. When the lamp is folded, the thickness is about 2 cm. Check out this link to find out more information and see beautiful pictures of this realy cool lamp. You can order it here: link.


Also, today hundreds of arts supporters from across the country have come together in Washington, DC for National Arts Advocacy Day, a united effort to tell Capitol Hill how important culture is to our communities, how much arts education means to our children, and how much the arts improve our daily lives.

You too can participate in Arts Advocacy Day by asking your Members of Congress to support the arts. By visiting the E-Advocacy Center, you’ll be able to send a message to your Representative and Senators telling them why the arts are important to you and your community and it only takes a couple minutes!

I link 10, you click however many you want. Here goes:

Warning Label Generator
Bit Font Maker
My Simpy
Fractalus
The Mondrian Machine
Web 2.0 Button Maker
Be far cleverer
Techna3D
Context Free
Fore-edge Painting


Want more like this? Give me one more click!

How would you like to find this in your fridge, or perhaps have it given to you as a gift? Drew Olbrich has one of these sitting in his office at work. He calls it "thing in a jar."

omigod. gross.

(but it sure beats the candybar in a jar of apple juice gag)

The download is a zipped, fully illustrated and informative, 17 page PDF tutorial designed for beginners. It was written in 2004 but the information within is still relevant for new versions of the application. The first part covers many Apophysis tips, including saving, editing and applying scripts, using hotkeys, mutating and transforming, saving parameters, changing gradients and rendering (using both HQI and Apophysis).

The second part contains information regarding Photoshop manipulation and recovery. Covered topics include basic color correction examples, using filters, layer techniques and a few other tips and hints designed to help beginners.

PLEASE NOTE: To view the pdf, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 or higher installed.


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Here's a free game by Steve Taylor called Plasma Pong that combines surreal colorful graphics with fun, fast-paced pong.

You can inject colorful plasma fluid into the environment, create a vacuum effect, and blast shock waves into the playing area. Every action has fluid-based kinetic effects on the ball which makes it harder to predict and control. I played this game for hours, completely mesmerized!

Mickael Golembewski of Olympia, Washington has taken up an interesting hobby he likes to call "The Scanner Photography Project." It began when he made his first scanner camera out of cardboard, duct tape and a cheap flatbed scanner but the results excited him and what was meant to be a project lasting a couple weeks has progressed over three years. He has since devised a better camera solution using an old Horseman 450L monorail 4x5 camera and a Canon LIDE 20 scanner. The black and white motion distortion images it produces are so interesting and hauntingly beautiful.

Thanks goes out to my buddy, Hobbins for sending me the link!