Tuesday linkpharm (pretty pictures):
- Internet chatspeak as vintage type ligature:
If, in some bizarre alternate history, chatspeak abbreviations like “LOL” had become popular long before there were computers and character sets, they might have, over time, become new symbols, like “et” became “&” and “at” became “@”. What might they look like? [via]
- Family Circus meets Cthulhu [via]
- Fark’s best Photoshops of 2005 — as with any Fark contest, mileage will vary. Some are so-so, some are kind of lame, a few are absolutely brilliant. [via]
- Visions of the Sponge — Iron Maiden album covers with Spongebob Squarepants inserted into them. Why? Because it’s the internet. [via]
- retrievr — “an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.” [via]
- The artwork of Kurt Halsey Frederiksen [via]
- Randomized Garfield strips — Wait, this isn’t how Jim Davis does it? [via]
- Speaking of Garfield… (warning, contains strong language) [via]
- Paku Paku — “We want to know beautiful piece of scenery in the world through the eyes of panda” (Well, they’re cute anyway.) [via]
- Draw Batgirl — some of them are really incredible [via]
- I feel pretty much the same about Penny Arcade
- Well, now I know what to get our dog next Christmas
