Comments | undyingking: Closing some tabs

undyingking

Closing some tabs

Jul 22, 2008 10:32

A few things that have caught my eye recently:

BgPatterns is a terrific resource for generating background graphics. Choose your motif, colurs, canvas texture, rotation, scaling, opacity and basically every tweak you might reasonably need. Preview it live on the site, then save it locally as a jpg for your own use. Really nice implementation.
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ubiquitous_cat July 22 2008, 09:39:39 UTC

No cricket has happened in the past two weeks, I refuse to admit that there has been any possibility of Yorkshire playing and losing, nor of England throwing away a test match and not bothering to turn up for the other.

undyingking July 22 2008, 10:00:12 UTC

playing and losing

Not to mention being disqualified from the most lucrative opportunity in English cricket...

ubiquitous_cat July 22 2008, 10:05:04 UTC

Twenty Twenty will never take off, nor does fielding an illegible player make you worthy of being disqualified if it did. I think I'll remain with my head stuck in the sand.

On another note, what do you think of the Twenty Twenty world cup next year?

undyingking July 22 2008, 10:24:50 UTC

I'm quite looking forward to it: the last one was a bit farcical but there were some good bits (Zim beating Aus, Yuvraj's 6 6s, the climax of the final). But I think the teams will take it a bit more seriously next year: the establishment of the IPL and related events has solidified it as an established form of cricket.

I posted a little while back that I didn't really think much of the format as cricket, but we're stuck with it now so might as well make the most of it.

Tbh it could hardly do worse than the last 50-over World Cup, anyway.

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triskellian July 22 2008, 09:40:27 UTC

Wow. I love the background graphic generator - thanks!

undyingking July 22 2008, 09:56:51 UTC

Would also be useful for making wallpaper (house rather than desktop) if you have quite a heavy-duty printer, I'm guessing.

bateleur July 22 2008, 09:47:08 UTC

Nietzche Family is very silly. My favourite result so far is this one, mostly because of the way the quote seems like the girl's dialogue.

bateleur July 22 2008, 09:49:09 UTC

And then the next one I generate is this. But I promise I'll stop posting them to your LJ now!

undyingking July 22 2008, 09:56:00 UTC

Heh, that's great. They should have a best-of gallery, like the BgPatterns site.

mr_malk July 22 2008, 10:57:58 UTC

I got one with the old "Do not gaze for long into an abyss..." quote that had a child speaking to a man on the beach, while the man was distracted by a generously proportioned young lady in a bikini. It was very amusing, but you had to be there. And I didn't get the permalink before clicking again...

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