my sites ‘n’ stuff
Games for the Brain
gamesforthebrain.com
Dozens of easy to understand but challenging games. Available in different languages.
Google Blogoscoped
blogoscoped.com
A daily news blog & community since 2003, 80% about Google. A source in Google News and a Techmeme 100 blog.
Cover Browser
coverbrowser.com
Explore and search 250,000+ covers, from comic books to magazines and more.
Sketchory
sketchory.com
250,000 drawings, licensed so you can share, embed, republish or remix them. Co-created with Dominik Schmid and Nikolai Kordulla.
CaptionX
captionx.com
Play against others in real-time, trying to find the funniest caption to a photo! (Co-created with Nikolai Kordulla.)
Sketch Swap
sketchswap.com
You draw an image to get another random image back. Co-created with Dominik Schmid. Simple but fun.
Bomomo
bomomo.com
Give it a try, it is best experienced rather than explained (co-created with Nikolai Kordulla).
Watch to Learn Chinese
watchtolearnchinese.com
Co-created with Yinxue, this site helps you speak Mandarin with nothing but (YouTube) videos.
Books
Google Apps Hacks: My book about Google tips and tricks circling around Google Documents, Gmail, Blogger, Google Notebook, Spreadsheets and more.
55 Ways to Have Fun With Google: My book with Google trivia, games, tips, cartoons and more.
Mutating Pictures
mutatingpictures.com
A population of 1,000 random pictures each. You allow the fittest pictures to survive. The higher your rating for a pic the more mutated offspring it produces.
Also...
Replace words on webpages. Turn your name into a face. Put words on stuff. Try search engine experiments. Develop using an advanced Notepad.
Caricatures/ Portraits
Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Howard Hughes, Humphrey Bogart, Indiana Jones, Matt Damon, Indy, Clark Gable, Chow Yun Fat, Peter Sellers, Mena Suvari, Flatt & Scruggs, Rick, friends, Jeremy Irons, and Hugh Grant.
Google Modules
googlemodules.com
Google Modules collects user’s widgets for iGoogl (co-created with Alex Ksikes).
Computer Game Artwork
Mongar characters (II), castle (II), graveyard, a cave, witch, houses, sprites, faces, village, dragon, game characters, armor, backgrounds. house backgrounds (also see the library, skull house, and bone house).
Quest Markup Language
questml.com
QML is an XML-based language to create Choose Your Own Adventure games. It’s completely free and comes with a Windows editor.
And...
Laugh at movies. Remix Digg comments (co-created with Justin Pfister and Jan Schlünzen). Watch a video of WYSIWYG-CMS Onpage 2 from 2001. Find spam only. Generate authoritative looking but utterly fake stats.
Authorama
authorama.com
Authorama collects many public domain books for easy and accessible online reading, searching and printing.
Paintings, Sketches, Design
Rebecca at the Well ('95, after Piazetta), Young Woman ('95, after Vermeer), Young Women at the Sea ('95, after de Charannes), portrait ('90), boys, horse and lion, Hulk ('93 after Keown), Bishop (after JR Jr). Scirocco (for Marko Faldix), Gebra, Imperia 5, Johanniter, Das Letzte Kleinod, and sample 1, 2, and a banner.
Blitz/ Visual/ Quick Basic
Pearl 6, image filters (see color/ black-and-white), Green Island, Robot Plague, Rings. AScript (sample). Kamikaze Aliens VI, V. Pearl 2, 3, 4, 5. The Echo files. WebCol converts colors, and WebMap creates image maps.
Games Music
Deeper, Horseshoe, sun fortress, shimmer, journey, attack, birdwalk, intro ancient city, castle, night, moon trumpet, entrance, ocean, throne room, throne room dramatic, rainbow, trees, pirates, and chambers.
3D Design
Mercedes SSK, helicopter, robots, controller, Silver Surfer, Spider-Man, Lukky Strikes (sic), space ship, impossible Escher cube.
