No matter what I'm doing or where I'm at, whenever I hear one of these songs I stop everything and do a happy dance!

Sprout is an amazingly customizable and free widget creator. This one was super easy to make and publish on iGoogle. I was curious if it would actually show up in a blog post. This is just a test.

Update: It looks like it has lost the thumbnails for the second and third pages, though they are all there on the first. Overall, I'd say it's a pretty powerful tool. Make them any size using one of their templates or from scratch. You can even add music and video! At any rate, it's a quick and easy way for any type of business to set up their own little custom widget cuz widgets are teh shiznat. You know you want one of your very own. I want to make like a gajillion of them.

Click on the little "share" button in the lower-right corner to see a list of sites Sprout widgets are compatible with.

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Venturing Outdoors - Episode 1. In Which We Try Not to Step in the Pile of Poo at Quiznos


My old Saturn finally kicked the bucket back in February. Unfortunately, we still had to pay the insurance for both my car and Michael's Mustang and we have been so busy lately, we kept putting off mailing the payment (who me? procrastinate?) so, this is the story of how my my mother-in-law gives me a ride to the insurance company and the crazy events that followed...

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San Francisco native, Andres Amador's site - Analogia.org (this isn't the first time Andres has shown up here in the Artist Showcase Archives... here's the post from 2 years ago.)

More about New Zealand's Peter Donnelly

Fractal Art



1. Zueuk
2. Nicholas Rougeux - Dusk
3. psion005
4. onebadpenny - inner conflict
5. d-b-c
6. FarDareisMai
7. MelonLogic
8. Gygrazok
9. judazfx
10. deloulark

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Ahhh, growing up in the era of the music video... when Ozzy was satanic because he barked at the moon and bit the heads off birds. If you're wondering why Corey Hart made the list, it's because the video would send him into a tirade. His main beef was that "you can't understand a single word he's singing!" What on earth could he have possibly meant? I couldn't take my eyes off his delicious mouth him... I was reading every single word loud and clear but did the words even matter?!

C'mon, I mean... just look at him!

P.S. Double the sexy - makeamamakneesgoweak.

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This kinda ties in with my last post... Here's little a story I wrote when I was about 7 or 8. I used my crayons, pencil, fabric and newspaper to illustrate it. A couple years later in 4th grade, I gave myself the nickname of JJ which I wrote on the front of this "booklet" when I learned how to write in cursive. I don't know how my grandmother ended up with this, but she gave it back to me a couple years ago with a bunch of other stories I wrote. This one I just HAD to share!

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I loved my Grandma Luxton (father's side) dearly. I wrote this letter 27 years ago and somehow it ended up making it's way back to me after all this time. Oddly enough, it was my other grandma on my mother's side that gave it back to me. I still wonder how this letter made it from my deceased grandmother to my mother's mother. But what I truly appreciate is how they both cared enough to keep this piece of paper all those years, something which might seem like such an insignificant thing to a child.

Mosquitos like you becuse your sweat. Hahaha!

Amy is my younger sister, who comments here frequently. Arianne is my cousin. I was 7 years old when I wrote this.

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I don't know how long I'll keep this up, but it's kinda fun putting these together :)

Check out the Fractal Bureau... where can I get one of these?

3D fractal sculptures are neato.

The Fractal Universe - I have high hopes for this relatively new comic blog.

Also, go see the fractal images on this site... they've all been made using only a mirror, a cheap video camera, and a video capture card.

Here's two for Tuesday...



More videos by artist/photographer William Wegman.

Aaaaaand, just cuz I'm feeling goofy tonight... I needs me some Diamond Dave.

Via Airshipworld