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Extras
- Goodies from Around the Web
That rumor is true. There is life
beyond poker. Don't believe it? Explore our constantly
updated Extras for some of the newest and coolest
non-poker stuff on the Net. Know a site, game or
application
that should be featured on Extras? Close your eyes,
breathe deeply, count to minus 2, and if you still
think your pick belongs here, let
us know about it!
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| Lomography
- The colors of Chaos |
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A decade and a half after two
Austrian students ran into the Russian
35 mm Lomo camera in Prague, and
started spreading the Lomo
gospel passionately, Lomography is now one of
the most exciting niches in
artistic photography.
With their arty, dreamy textures,
and warm, often distorted colors, Lomo
photographs capture the hidden
abstract and chaotic layers of
reality.
Natalie
Zwillinger is a renowned
Lomographer who has won several prizes
in major Lomo contests, and exhibits
internationally. Her works
reveal a wild, intimate, sensual point
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Human monkey...
Dude pops his eye out ... Fast Coke
drinker... Insane motor biking...
Feel blue? Nobody wants you 'cause
you're down and out? Check out Wimp,
one of the best places on the Web to
find the latest funny, weird and extreme
videos, which are bound to make you
smile, laugh out loud, cringe, or shake
your head in disbelief.
Wimp
is like a Web-based version
of the well-connected buddy who
forwards you the newest stuff
everybody's talking about. Unlike its
human competitors, Wimp
doesn't push you anything you don't
want to watch. Virtually blank
except for the titles, Wimp
enables you to skip the yuk stuff,
and find the goodies that suit
your personal taste.
Want more cool stuff? Check
UTube!
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Download
BugsysClub's Mac Poker Client
PartyPoker
Club
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Spell with flickr
Based on the Flickr
API, Spell
with flickr is a cool tool that takes letters
and numbers of your choice and spells them
out with various images from flickr.
Don’t like one of the pictures? Click
on it and another one will pop up. Spell
with flickr also provides direct links to
the original pictures on flickr.
Cool thing, and, of course, a great way to
teach your pet the alphabet.
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The Face
Transformer
From the Perception
Laboratory at the University of St
Andrews, Scotland comes The
Face Transformer, a facial manipulation
applet that is a blast to play with others.
Upload your picture to this smart Java
toy, and soon you'll go through radical
age, gender and race metamorphosis. Just
been dumped? Wipe away your tears, gal,
and turn the jerk into an Ape Man. The
Face Transformer can also make the faces
you upload the subjects of beautiful virtual
portraits "by" Botticelli, El Greco and
Modigliani, or even hip Magna cartoons.
The Many Faces of Johnny Depp
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Guidebook
Macintosh System 1.1 (1984)
Marcin Wichary's Guidebook
is an online museum dedicated to preserving
and showcasing old and forgotten Graphical
User Interfaces from the first WIMP
(Windows- Icons-Menus-Pointer) GUI developed
in the mid 70's at the Xerox
PARC lab, and onward. After exploring
the fascinating history of various GUIs'
co-evolution and demise, you can delve into
Wichary's
other obsession and visit his no longer
updated, 150-page site
dedicated to one(!) Pet Shop Boys song.
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Imagination3
Can
a corporate giant's Flash tool be genuinely
cool? Apparently, yes. Imagination3
AKA Imagination
Cubed, a creative collaboration platform
from GE,
simply rocks.
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Overheard in New York
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Brooklyn chick #1: He's totally
self-destructive.
Brooklyn chick #2: Yeah, I know, but so am
I, just in a different way, ya know? I'm only
self destructive to me, not to other people...
wait, forget that I just said that.
This exchange, overheard on the New York F
train, is a sample of the endless stream
of weird, funny or hilariously silly real-life
conversation fragments documented in Overheard
in New York.
Based on submissions by sharp-eared New
Yorkers, Overheard
in New York offers an opportunity
to learn about the human condition and laugh
out loud at the same time.
You may also want to check the sister site, Overheard
in the Office for gems like this Louisville,
Kentucky conversation snippet: Guy #1: Why
did you only wash one hand? Guy #2: I only
peed on one hand. Guy #1: You're an idiot.
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Delivery
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If you have 8:43 minutes
to spare and feel like spending them in another
world, check out Delivery,
a haunting, visually stunning animated
masterpiece by Till
Nowak, a young German CG artist who delivers
poignant digital Expressionism.
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