Jake of the Web Time Wasters And Then Some

Letters to Walken

http://www.brandonbird.com/walken_letters.html

'Children' writing letters to Christopher Walken as though he were Santa Claus.

"Dear Chris, My Daddy says I'm too old to believe in Santa. Please come to our house on Christmas Eve and put the fear of God into him."

Search 'Walken Letters' or 'Letters to Walken'

Zoom Quilt

http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/zoomquilt2.swf

Freaky series of pictures that are continually zoomed in upon. As you zoom in closer to the center of the first picture, you begin to see the next. Although technically it is 88 pictures strung together, the experience is like zooming in to microscopic level of a picture, seeing everything with frightening clarity along the way.

There is a fader bar to the left with which you can control the speed and direction of the zoom.

If you want your coworkers to think you are completely insane, you can use the animation as a screensaver: http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/

Unee tee

http://www.uneetee.com/

A T-shirt company who, rather than sticking with puns or 50's illustrations with ironic captions, makes artistic and visually appealing images. It's not so much a t-shirt as it is pop art that happens to be wearable.

EarthAlbum – photos from around the world!

http://www.earthalbum.com/

A map of the world – wherever you click on the map, a row of images from that location that are found on flickr will appear at the top. Click on the images for more detail. Moves very smoothly and quickly.

Multi-platform IM

http://www.pidgin.im/

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

Both Trillian and Pidgin (formerly GAIM) are free multi-protocol IM applications. You can use one application to access AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and MSN messengers. The free version of Pidgin and the Pro version of Trillian also allow you to use it for Google Talk and Novell Instant Messenger, which is why I have recently switched from Trillian to Pidgin.

Flickr color wheel

http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/

A color wheel that will find the pictures on Flickr that most closely match any color you wish. There are sub-categories you can choose from as well, including: Color fields, Flowers, Squared Circle, Graffiti, Doors and Windows, Textures, Urban Decay, and others.

Improved wikipedia search

http://wikiwax.com/

A different way to search Wikipedia. As you type in a word, real-time matches begin to populate below the search field. It also returns related items quicker than Wikipedia's ordinary search. Another different Wikipedia search is at http://wikiseek.com/

The Cloak

The Cloak

By Jason Steele

http://www.filmcow.com/

or just do a web video search for 'the cloak'.

Jason Steele has made quite a number of popular 'viral' videos. One of my favorites is 'The Cloak', about a Communism-fighting private eye who happens to be a talking, floating cloak. His sidekick is the disembodied head of 'film noir legend' Robert Mitchum.

Create your own mural-sized posters

http://www.blockposters.com/
Will take any image under 1 Mb and blow it up to poster size for you, with the poster consisting of 8 1/2 X 11 sized 'blocks'. It generates a PDF file with as many pages as necessary, which you can then print them out on your own and tape together. You can save it in digital format and print it out as many times as you like. You can click on the 'gallery' link at the top to see what people have used the site for. One kid used it to make his own cardboard cutout of a stormtrooper.

Your Neighbor Stinks

http://www.rottenneighbor.com/
Intended to help warn people about bad neighbors and places to avoid buying a house in. This is a new site, and there are not very many entries for Utah on it. I want people to log on and say something mean about their neighbors.

It does require an email address in order to post, but you can use the next web site to get around that.