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the bitter*girls

I so dig the bitter*girls. I suspect the depth of field in these images has been added during post-processing with a gradient blur, but I don’t know for sure.
[see for yourself: http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/photolog/archive/c22183]

InterfaceLIFT: High Resolution Widescreen Wallpaper

If you’re looking for wide-screen format wallpaper (1920 x 1200) and higher, have a look at InterfaceLIFT: High-Resolution Widescreen Wallpaper. Nice.

amazing textures

Looks like there hasn’t been any new content in awhile, but here’s yet another site with textures: amazingtextures.com.

Photo Touchup

Here is a good tutorial for retouching and touching up poor source material for beauty: Photo Touchup. The tutorial shows each and every step. Have a look at the before and after shots:

Textures

I’m clearing out some bookmark tabs to a more permanent home. Here are two good texture resources:

textures.forrest.cz
www.texturebin.com

Spell with flickr

This flickr toy searches for individual letters and numbers, and will let you spell out words with them. Kewl: http://metaatem.net/words/

fd’s Flickr Toys

Here are some really nifty gizmos for playing with flickr: fd’s Flickr Toys.

Face Recognition Demo?

If you were curious to see which celebrity myheritage.com thinks you most look like, you can try it out yourself here: Face recognition. [Found on fark.com]
I’m not so sure about it; I apparently resemble Lec Walesa (57%), Moritz Leuenberger (56%), someone named Bill Watterson that I’ve never heard of (55%), Jon Voight […]

joejoe’s Wallpapers

In my continuous quest for great wallpapers, thanks to digg.com, I’ve found this: joejoe’s wallpapers.

Hubble Space Telescope Hall Of Fame

Some of the best Hubble Space Telescope images are available here: The European Homepage For The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. If I had to pick a single favorite, it would be this one: a perfect storm of turbulent gases. The image spans 3 light years. Keep in mind that it doesn’t actually […]

Happy Palace

Not as good as flickr, but fun to watch anyways: Happy Palace.

New Me & My Katamari Screenshots

I can’t hardly wait: a version of Katamari Damacy for the PSP: New Me & My Katamari Screenshots. Sometime next year. That’s soon, right?
Your Katamari is really huge!

Searchable NASA Image Archive

Awesome. You can now search for NASA spaceflight images: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html
One of my favorites: Aldrin on the moon [hi-res 3.0MB].

2006 Pirelli Calendar

The always great Pirelli Calendar [NSFW] for 2006 is now up. Images from the on-line flash page have been extracted (apparently) and are available separately here: attuseespirelli.blogspot.com [NSFW]

flickrfs

Given I’m hooked on flickr, and a linux geek, it was inevitable that I would eventually discover flickrfs. Great idea.