TGIF- more cool stuff

Happy TGIF everyone! Here are some more fun and interesting sites to kill time while you wait for quitting time. ;) I hope you all have a nice weekend. :D

***Denotes favorite sites of the week***

Here are some amazing photographers I found I Stumble Upon:
Nick Brandt
Kenneth Parker

You guys know I'm all for friskin' and monthly breast exams, I found this site online- Feel Your Boobies- and also found out that National Feel Your Boobies Week is October 12-19.

Six cool Flash games.

A tag browser that finds images on Flikr.

A Flash tutorial on how to draw a face/head.

Test your connection speed.

***Modern Living Neurotica Series. I loved this site! You simply mouse or click over the image and see what happens. I really love the 94-90 tab.***

***Monoface is also very interesting, you click on facial features to change them. Weird but fun!***

3D art.

TGIF- Gadgets galore!

I started this little thingy to get you guys off to a relaxing start for the weekend... I'm posting cool blog gadgets and other things I Stumble on that it enjoyed. Plus, having something to mess with at work while your waiting for quittin' time will help pass the time, right? TGIF, baby!




I saw this at Robin's blog, it's a funky name generator that takes letters off of Flikr. Get yours here.


Would you like to have feeds posted directly to your desk top? Check out Spring Widgets. Here is a screen shot of what mine looks like at cre8buzz.

I copied and pasted my feed URL into the preferences so that cre8buzz members can see what's on my blog. :) You can subscribe to any feed and have it load on your desktop widget or create a feed widget and embed code on a site. Vurrry vurrry cool.



If you're curious to see if there are any bloggers in your neighborhood, you can check out this nifty site called FeedMap. I tried it, but there aren't any bloggers listed near me yet :( It's a really interesting concept though, and you have the option to see actual aerial pictures of the locations, which is cool. It will be really interesting if more people sign up. ;)

And yet another widget gadget... there's BlogRush. You can see an example of BlogRush at work at the bottom of my sidebar. The idea is that you submit your blog name and feed, choose a category for your blog and you can get feed titles to posts of blogs similar content to yours. Also, your blog posts will eventually make the widget thus promoting your own content. This if also fairly new, but the folks at BlogRush are claiming that this has potential to bring more traffic to your blog, so once it really gets going I'll let you know. ;) But I'm thinking, the more the merrier, right?

There is this site that I Stumbled Upon that has a similar theme with the animal cuteness factor at ICHC, called Cute Overload. This is what I saw the other day... it's just so stinkin' cute!




My favorite site this week (besides the kitteh above) that I StumbledUpon is this nifty face gadget, Ultimate Face Flash:

You can use many choices of each facial characteristic to make a self portrait. See the little box above that looks like it has a "cross hair" in it? Use that little slider tool to change the size of each characteristic to your liking. I only messed around with it for a few minutes but it was fun!
Edit to add: I just couldn't resist. *snort*


I hope you got a kick out of something in my post and have a great weekend!

~mert

Stumble this! OR TGIF Stumbles

Though I am at times reluctant to try new things, I'm not that way when it comes to stuff on my computer- especially the internet. I love this thing called Stumble. You truly never know what you are going to stumble on.

Today, for your enjoyment, I bring you TGIF Stumbles. Every Friday I'll highlight some of the cool stuff I have Stumbled on, just a little something to get your relaxation gears going.

• Ok, the fist site I happened upon was this site called Inspired by the Molecular Muse. The geek in me screams "YES!". How could you NOT want a a pair of earrings like these? My birthday is coming up... I must send the link to the MISU.
  

Want to know what these are? The earrings are the representative of the molecular make up of "the favored symbol of chocolate: theobromine".
Coffee anyone? Here is a necklace that is based on the caffeine molecule.

The creator is a scientist-come-artist, and all of her jewelry is made from reasonably priced sterling silver considering they are hand crafted.
I think out of all of her jewelry, this one is my favorite though. Isn't it purty?

Quoted from Molecularmuse's page:

Creativity Necklace:
I love being creative - and that state of flow when you are consumed with the project. So, I made a necklace to commemorate it.

The charms dangling on this sterling silver necklace represent the 3 major neurotransmitters (those brain chemicals responsible for mood and emotion) critical to creativity:

(from left to right)
serotonin - happiness, satisfaction
dopamine - love, passion, pleasure
acetylcholine - learning, memory, dreaming

• Another page I found was this cat haiku... check it out if you are a cat lover. It's pretty funny!

• A Quicktime movie about Hiccups ;)
  

• And finally- hilarious 911 calls.

OK, that's it for me! I hope you all have a nice, relaxed weekend. Enjoy!

PS- Don't forget that tomorrow is the 15th. You know what that means!