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By a stroke of luck, I just stumbled upon PIKAPIKA. A while ago, I ran across a really cool animation  of a horse or something drawn with lights, marching across the screen in stop motion?

Here's the source. There's some really fun animations they've done, although I'm still perplexed at how they could draw each frame at the right size, frame by frame. It's obviously a great deal of work, but it's giant fun.

http://tochka.jp/pikapika/

Tutorials for Bryce, Photoshop, Flash, PHP, 3DS MAX, Illustrator, Paint Shop Pro and more!

http://nututorials.com/index.php

Ever been stuck needing to convert a file to a different format, but didn't want to go through the hassle of installing the software, or don't have the software you need to convert it to a format you can use? Then this is going to be one mighty handy web site.
http://www.zamzar.com/

I can't remember how I found her, but I'm glad I did. Meet a fellow fractal fanatic, Stacy Reed. She's got a website full of very cool fractals, you can find some great fractal artwork on her site, including some great looking composite work with fractals. She's also got links to lots of cool stuff at the main entrance of her web site. Pop in sometime and look around when you've got a chance.

Stacy Reed- She Dreams in Digital.

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www.jmfitch.com - downloadsprograms

Free Themes - freebies, free stuff, free samples

eBay Seller queen bee diva d Self-Representing Artists, Art items on eBay.com

Directory of Manhattan Project Veteran Collections

Fractals Resimler - Sayfa 29 - MsXLabs Organization

Haunted Halloween Hot Sauce! Hot Sauce Products

httpdailyepisodes.com All the episodes of different series

John Mitchell, Composer - Contact Information

Meet & Greet

Metacafe - discover the world's best videos

Oddio Overplay - SUPER SOUND SITES

She Dreams In Digital My So-Called Online Life

Stardust@Home - My Events

STS 115 - Google Video

Sylvie Gallet's Fractal Gallery

thatlitevideosite.com

U & I software

WordPress - install a working version of Word Press on a USB thumb drive

There's a lot of very useful freeware software contained here. Bookmark it, it may come in handy some day.
http://www.freewr.com/

Ok, this is just too cool. How many times have you needed to find out the name of a font on something created by someone else, when you're stuck with the job of trying to match it?

Here's the answer- a website where you submit a scan of an image with the font you're trying to match, and this can help you find out what font it is! Sweet!

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

I am SO up for this!
    
    
I just stumbled across something very cool- Hikaru Dorodango- highly polished balls of mud.
Seriously, go look.
http://www.dorodango.com

Looking at how this is made, I'm thinking it might be a relaxing thing to do, making an object of beauty out of common, everyday mud.

Now, here's the thing that's really cool- I punched this into Ebay- even worldwide, there's not a SINGLE LISTING. I say we corner the market on fine art mud balls!

I'm sitting here thinking of how I could get patterns into the thing using different colored dirt.

Anyone else up for a fun, creative, and bizarre art project challenge?

A fun, brilliant little animation done in Flash.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34244097/

When you're setting out to build your own pinhole camera, here's some software to help you get it right.

http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholedesigner/

FindArticles gives you free access to millions of articles from thousands of top publications.

http://findarticles.com/

These illustrations are nothing short of jaw dropping. They're not photos, nor paintings, but vector based illustrations. Incredible.  LINK

Cool  CNet article about Electric Sheep.
http://news.com.com/PCs+dream+of+electric+sheep/2100-1025_3-6099911.html?tag=nefd.lede

All sorts of IT goodness is right here. http://techrepublic.com.com

Step by step collaborations. Share what you make, and how others can make it. Giant fun! http://www.instructables.com/

This is another reason it sucks I wasn't born later. This is the sort of thing I've dreamed of, being able to manipulate a computer with something that makes sense, a way to directly manipulate things like a 3D mesh, in real time. I've dreamed of a 3D mouse that was sort of a blob with knobs poking out to represent X, Y, and Z axis, both positive and negative. To stretch the mesh, you'd grab the knob at the top and pull it upward, which would cause the mesh to deform. Make it wider by pulling on both the left and right horizontal knobs. This is nothing short of magic, it really is, it's a dream come true.

Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Media Research Lab. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure.  (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 09:32)
Link

An online library with a huge selection of audio books.
http://ww.netlibrary.org/

This is just a really fun toy to play with. Upload a photo of yourself, them morph into someone else's face. http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~morph/Transformer/

Need help setting up your router or firewall? This site may be just what you're looking for. Port Foward

Urinals from around the world.

One very cool and bizarre gallery of photos.

Spam Architecture

Spam Plants

Spam as art- this artist feeds spam email into a piece of software, and the spam creates parameters to generate cool images.

Galley of Ron Mueck sculptures.

These works are nothing short of incredible.

Most likely not safe for work, sculptural nudity. (I think I just coined a new term.)

Trippy Animations

A friend of mine emailed me a link to someone's website to check out the trippy animations. The funny thing- they've got mine at the end of the page at the very bottom. :) Check them out, these are cool.

Set your inexpensive camera to a slow lens setting, set the timer, and toss it into the air and see what it captures. Very cool stuff.
Flickr: The Camera Toss Pool:

Pick any gallery and go through them, almost every photo is powerful. The India gallery is quite stark and desolate, the Cross Country gallery has a lot of great shots of people going on with their day to day life. There's also some amazing photos in the 1964 Kentucky album, it's all great stuff.

This is quite an amazing body of work, his images have a great deal of mood and emotion in them.

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney/photographs.html

When you're stuck trying to figure out what that creepy crawly thing is, this website may be of great help.
What's That Bug?:

There's a great deal of cool content on this website, she's into many things I love, so it's a treasure trove for me.
She Dreams In Digital :: My So-Called Online Life: