Cool Stuff
If any of these links don't seem to work, make sure you don't have popups disabled - I set them to open in a new window.
 - My mom's site - she does commissioned pastel portraits of people and animals. I may be biased, but I think she's really good!
 - Lise LeBel - really cool pictures/wallpaper!
 - Digital Blasphemy - absolutely incredible wallpapers (for your computer screen, etc.).
 - This is where I learned how to make gold text, etc. Really great instructions and awesome results (even if you don't know what you're doing - good way to learn).
 - High resolution of famous artists (very nice site!)
 - Stock Xchng - free stock photos! They have a great selection here.
 - Pixel Perfect Digital - free stock photos!
 - Geek Philosopher - free stock photos!
 - Mine is Nilde. Tons of names translated to Elvish (a language by J. R. R. Tolkien).
 - Elf name generator
 - Lord of the Rings - Videos, images, very cool.
 - Oh how I love fonts! You can preview whatever text you want and download the fonts.
 - You can browse by category or alphabetically and download whatever you want. Lots of categories. They also have pages about other things like software and web design...
 - Tons of links to sites to keep you busy.
 - 20 Questions online game - you think of something and it guesses it - really incredible!
 - Find out what your number spells.
 - My dad's personal site (created long ago). He's got things about his travels and personal stuff.
 - this is one of the most amazing games. It is a collection of almost 400 solitaire card games (for the computer). You can download it free and if you want the full version, it's only about $19.95 - honestly one of the best purchases I've ever made. It includes clearly written rules, an autoplay button, and allows you to view your high scores, averages, etc. for all the games.
 - Tons of free games to play online (puzzles, action, word, etc. games).
 - Free online, interactive crosswords. One reason why this is so cool is because if you have a letter wrong, it shows you (unless you're in expert mode).
 - one of the funniest & most entertaining sites - this one has contests where people will take a normal photograph and change it in the computer to come up with things like different species of animals, Saddam in a dress, etc.
 - The Onion - this is just funny.
 - Based on Darwin's theories, this site gives awards to people who take themselves out of the gene pool by dying in really stupid ways. It sounds cruel, but it's actually very funny.
 - Star Design Costumes - I just ordered a Halloween costume online from them. I am so impressed with this company! The site and service are great - I already received my costume!
 - I ordered more RAM from this company. After searching for a while, trying to figure out what I needed, I found this site. It was easier to understand than most of the others. I ended up getting the wrong one anyway, called them, and returned it to get a different one. They were very nice, understanding and helpful.
 - See how different styles would look on you!
 - Find out who your neighbors are - search by ZIP code to see how many sex offenders are in your area (pretty creepy, but helpful).
 - Copyright info.
 - What is Copyright?
 - this is a great program - click my link to their site and then click download on their site. There is a free version and a shareware version. This program allows you to view all or some fonts on your computer. It also lets you see which fonts don't have certain characters (example some fonts don't have numbers or lowercase letters or misc. characters).
 - this site offers antivirus software, but you can also scan your computer and clean any viruses free online.
 - Very nice program to create and edit icons, cursors, etc.
 - I love this program. A free download, this checks your mail for you and allows you to bounce mail (so if you're being spammed by a company, they'll think your e-mail address is no good). Also, a great way to delete unknown e-mails before actually downloading (and risking viruses) - then you can open them normally with your default mail program.
 - Tons of free downloads
 - Make a quiz and have your friends take it!
 - See how fast you type.
 - See if you can correctly match the names of the states to their placement on the map.
 - Awesome Buffy & Angel site - has transcripts & trailers and everything!
 - This is great - they have a random quote generator that pops up quotes from different episodes.
 - TV and movie slipups. Fun to watch things again to look for the inconsistencies.
Stories everyone believes to be true, but aren't.
 - I usually go here when I get one of those e-mails saying "send this to all your friends!" because there's some computer virus or psychotic killer wandering around my area. I've found almost all of them to be hoaxes or urban legends.
 - Tons of categories to pick from here.
 - WOW! Can't think of adjectives good enough to describe this site! Free downloads... You can even put their tools directly on your site. Make your own menus, tool tips, status bars, etc. with just a few clicks. It generates professional graphics and flash files with code you just paste on your site.
 - This program is like Macromedia Flash, but about a million times easier to use. It has tons of effects (you can pick from presets and then alter them), makes coding very easy (using the guided mode ActionScript), and looks awesome. Most of the flash files on my site are done with SWiSHmax (including the menu at the top of the page).
 - FlashButtons.com - really cool (and free) flash buttons! 
 - Awesome site for web designers. Check to see how your site will look in different resolutions, generate meta tags, etc..
 - Gives you the code for different colors and generates some html code for you.
 - Nice, clear tutorial on how to program in JavaScript.
 - Web Design Helper - wonderful site with lots of free stuff (fonts, icons, templates, clipart)!
 - Fonts, flaming text, lots of cool stuff here.
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