Rebuilding Iraq

A classic from Kieran...

Just For Shan...a nice Halbadiri

A Tanzanian member of parliament has threatened to place a death curse on all ministers if the government does not do more to fight corruption.

Can I just say that I wish I had the title "Minister of State for Good Governance"? We need one of those here.

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Bob Bermer the inventor of ASCII passed away today.

This reminds me of one of the all time best signs I've ever seen.



For those of you who aren't fluent, here's a cheat sheet.

Too much time...

Someone with WAY too much time on their hands. Then again, what's it say about me that I read the entire thing.

BTW we went out last night to see The Terminal. Personally I (and Jen, Anna and Carla...my lovely dates for the evening) all gave it the big two thumbs down. My comment as the credits rolled was: "There's two hours of my life I'll never get back..."

True Illustrators

I can't draw to save my life. I've always wanted to be able to draw, but for some reason I just have never been able to accomplish anything more exciting than a stick figure. Maybe I enjoy my work so much because enabling others to do amazing work is a sad attempt to make up for my lack of drawing talent. This is a small portfolio of some of the amazing things done using Illustrator.

Technical Drawings
Drawings done for architectural or design work

• Schulz Museum - Gary Newman


• Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship - Kevin Hulsey Illustration

Realistics Drawings
These are not photos...these are drawn by hand from scratch

• Horn - Koji Masui


• Lettuce - Koji Masui

Artistic/Stylistic
Drawings showing how to duplicate natural media or more traditional artistic techniques

• Myself am hell - Egypt Urnash


• Beautiful and colorful lotus - Anonymous

Let me know if you enjoy this type of posting, and I'll keep my eye out for other nice images. I'd like to thank Todd Macadangdang for Illustrator World.

Women Drinking Tea! Crazy Talk...

Praise Allah for teleconferencing.

The last quote is the best though...

It's easy to laugh and/or cry about some of the "antiquated" ideas in that article. We shouldn't laugh too hard though. This article is an interesting study of how much bogus-science we're being fed each day. I hear people (myself among them) quoting some of this stuff like it's gospel all the time too...

Just for my wife...

Neat Horse Pictures!
What could be better than that?

Actually I found them through this: The LinkSquare Project. Thanks Noelle!