Fun Site Links

If you haven't found anything interesting to do in my last post (I post weekend events for SF every Thursday), then maybe you just oughtta stay in. Here are a few ways to whittle away your spare time. Wow, I wonder if that's the first time I've ever typed the word 'whittle'. Maybe I should get out more often.

Spell with Flickr: a new way to look at the alphabet. Enter any word(s) or phrase into the text box and Lo! and Behold! It shows up in text images using only Flickr photos for its database.

Fastr- a flickr game. I am amazed that my blog stats program still shows peeps (visitors) using things like Firebird 0.6, Firefox 1.0, Internet Explorer 5.5, and Windows 95, 98, and 2000. Anywho... If you're still old skool like that and need a game other than Tetris to fill your spare time, this is an idea. Fastr uses photo tags from flickr photos and shows you various images while you try to guess the common tag.

If you're in need of a cool $2k and can whip up a killer website in a jiffy, well... Overheard in New York is prolly looking for you. Design their new site by September 1st and get paid $2,000. Speaking of overheardinnewyork.com, what's not to like? Funny stuff, really. (Really funny stuff).

About three whiles ago, I blogged this Highway Sign Generator website. An absolute favorite site of mine, The Style Invitational from the Washington Post, finally has their submissions up for this contest (Report from week 672). My gosh, these are some sickly funny highway signs.

REPORT
PHONE-USING-DRIVERS
CALL-202-555-3147
Mike Connaghan, Alexandria

HONK IF YOU'RE
AM IMPATIENT MORON
Art Grinath, Takoma Park

IF YOU LIVED
IN YOUR CAR YOU'D
BE HOME BY NOW
Elwood Fitzner, Valley City, N.D.

HAVE YOU
BELTED YOUR KIDS
Bird Waring, NY

DETOUR AHEAD:
HARBOR TUNNEL
UNDER WATER
Marty McCullen, Gettysburg, PA

ALL LANES
EXACT CHANGE
TOLL 1.95
David Kleinbard, Jersey City

DAYS SINCE LAST
SIGN-FALLING
ACCIDENT: 02
Mike Connaghan

EXITING DC
KEEP FAR RIGHT
NEXT 2500 MI
Kevin Dopart

image credits: d3velop from Spell with Flickr, Highway Sign from The Style Invitational and atom.smasher.org