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Interested in getting yourself a free icon? Tod Wills aka djinni is doing his eleventh free icon day, this time themed Halloween in July. You can find the details at his Halloween in July post. The icon I'm using on this post is one of his. You can also check out the results of his labor for Icon Day 10.

While you're checking stuff out, Tod also does a really cool webcomic, Ekwara and does the pencils for another nifty webcomic, Crimson Flag.

Like the icon on this post? He's one of my characters in the Mars Academy RPG, Pithani the student and student-librarian. He's a pretty serious student although he can be playful (he is one of the youngest students on campus), but in the library he's a serious guy.

He was drawn as part of djinni's 5th Free Icon Day. You can see more of his icon day work at his post Every Icon Day. Just be sure your computer is ready to load 623 icons. :}

And if you like those, check out his comics Ekwara, Crimson Flag which he does with virmir and Dracula which is based on the Bram Stoker novel.


This is also a sign of how watching nifty people can lead you to other nifty people, as it was a post by the also quite nifty haikujaguar that first pointed me in his direction.

(And how nifty, the first LJ spam comment that I've caught myself... DEE-LEET!)

I have been tempted lately to learn crochet or knitting for one simple reason. Amigurumi Look at that critter, it's cute! Oh look, another cute fox! Cute sleepy fox! Or a fox guarding cookies

Yeah, I like cute critters. Yeah, I'm a guy. Your point?

Cute burns away the cynicism. Enough said.

Now this is nifty. I trust everyone is familiar with the typography animation set to the dialog from Pulp Fiction, "English, do you speak it?" Well, here is a similar one set to dialog from the Firefly episode, Out of Gas.

Boston anime fan creates an AMV with his reaction to the city's recent civic paranoia. Said AMV then wins the comedy catagory in at Anime Boston 2007.



No Reason, an AMV

There's no actual nudity but unless you have a very friendly boss this video is probably not safe for viewing at work...

Fred Perry's band of Pirate-Ninja-Leprechauns from Gold Digger sing about the joy of being a pirate. (Music borrowed from a show called LazyTown)

Walks off singing to himself, "Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free ... we'll dig up the box ... burst open the locks and then we'll say HOORAY!"

Remember MC Skat Kat?

Okay, some of you are a too young for that. Back in the pre-pre-pre-American Idol days, Paula Abdul did a video for a song on her first album called Opposites Attract. Which involved a back and forth between herself and a rapper calling himself MC Skat Kat. And when the video showed up on MTV (Yes, once upon a time MTV showed music videos. Really. No I'm not making that up. Honest! Sheesh, go check wikipedia already!) the co-star of the video was an animated cat.

I didn't realize it at the time, but it seems MC Skat Kat made an attempt to go solo, which included at least one video for a song titled Kat Strut that had the same animated cat and company (sans Paula). Unfortunately for Skat Kat's career as a rapper it didn't sell well enough to lead to any further albums. However, the voice behind Skat Kat, Derrick Stevens, is still involved in the world of music. It seems that a about a year and a half ago he became production manager for 89.3 The Current, a public radio station in Minnesota. And this is not yet another NPR Classical Music station (although I do like our local NPR classics station), just check out 89.3's list of songs of the day.

Nifty.
Now, to mangle Adrian Ramos's closing line. I'm going to bed! (Yikes, without Firefox's inline spell checker, this would be filled with sleep deprivation induced spelling errors.)