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 450,000+ covers, from comic books to magazines and more.
Vintage Ad Browser
vintageadbrowser.com
Featuring over 100,000 old print ads to explore. This is the sister site of Cover Browser.
Sally Sells You Stuff
sallysellsyoustuff.com
A photo comic showing Sally and her gadgets & brainy toys.
What Happened In My Birth Year
whathappenedin...com
Enter your birth year to find out.
Bomomo
bomomo.com
Give it a try, it is best experienced rather than explained (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.
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 & tricks. 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google: Google trivia, games, tips, cartoons and more.
Also...
Mutate pictures. Browse 250,000 shareable sketches. Turn your name into a face. Put words on stuff. Develop using an advanced Notepad. (i)Google Modules (co-created with Alex Ksikes).
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.
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 WYSIWYG-CMS Onpage 2 (2001). Find spam. Generate authoritative looking fake stats.
Authorama
authorama.com
Authorama collects many public domain books for easy and accessible online reading, searching and printing.
Paintings, design...
Rebecca (95 after Piazetta), Young Woman (95 after Vermeer), At the Sea (95 after Charannes), portrait (90), boys, horse & lion, Hulk (93 after Keown), Bishop (after JrJr). Web design 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Blitz/ V/ Q Basic
Pearl 6, image filters (color/ black-and-white), Green Island, Robot Plague, Rings. AScript (sample). Kamikaze Aliens VI, V. Pearl 2, 3, 4, 5. Echo files. WebCol converts colors, 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.
