Jake of the Web Time Wasters And Then Some

Ascii-o-matic — Create your own ascii pictures

This site generates an 'ASCII' (letters and punctuation) drawing or picture based on any 60x50 pixel image you give it. It works best if you use pictures that are close-ups of faces, which are a little easier for the human eye to recognize if the image is a bit blurry. Because it requires such a small image, you may need to manipulate existing photos using something like Photoshop – GIMP (www.gimp.org) is a free alternative and should be more than sufficient. You can create color or black & white images, and use either ASCII characters or simple squares to create your image.

I created ASCII images of all of our favorite Radio from Hell personalities.

Kerry

Bill

Gina

Richy

Ascii-o-matic

Virtual NES – old school games online

www.virtualnes.com
Recommended by Matt Marcek

This site has a massive library of original Nintendo games. All of the Nintendo games I can remember and I ton that I don't – Wrestlemania games, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all 3 Mario Games, and Spy Hunter and a million more.

Fun game – Double Wires

www.onemorelevel.com/games3/double-wires.swf
or just search for 'double wires'

A ridiculous game where a rag doll person with spider-like webslinging abilities fights the good fight against gravity. Picture if Steven Hawking were spider man. Ugly but fun.

Study resources

litsum.com

wikisummaries.org

www.cliffsnotes.com

www.antistudy.com

Free cliff notes, summaries of books, characters, bios of authors and more cool stuff to make studying and homework a lot easier.

Customize your Sidekick

Jarrod asked about modding Sidekick IIIs.

Although not 'modding' per se in the same way as with other phones, I found a few sites dedicated to personalizing your Sidekick:

www.hiptop.com

sidekick3.blogspot.com

www.sidekickwallpapers.com

I like Turtles

Sending anonymous text messages: Anontxt.com and Textforfree.net

Another friend of the program asked about sending text messages to someone's cell phone anonymously:

Anontxt.com
textforfree.net

Also has an option to embed a window into your myspace page or other blog. This is obviously best for sites with a security restriction on 'friends only'.

Also, you can send text to people from the web page of their service provider. A few major ones are:

Verizon: https://text.vzw.com/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp

Sprint: http://messaging.sprintpcs.com/textmessaging/compose

T Mobile: https://wmg.tmomail.net/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp

AT&T allows you to send from the web, but you must have an account and log in in order to do so.

Now, just because they don't see your name on the text message doesn't mean they can't find out who you are – especially if you are harassing or threatening, so be good.

Make doing your chores an adventure!

www.chorewars.com
Online text-based role playing game that allows you to create a character and then build that character up by doing chores in real life. This would be especially good, I would imagine, for families with 2 or more kids, where chores could become a game and a bit of competition to make chores more interesting. I suppose kids fighting over who gets to clean the bathroom is not such a bad thing.

Send text from your PC to your phone

Firefox Add-on of the week:

http://tools.google.com/firefox/sendtophone/index.html
Google's 'send to phone' addon places a small icon on your Firefox toolbar. From here, you can type or copy/paste any text into the window and send data or any other info to your phone (or any other phone, provided you know the number and carrier of the person you are trying to reach)