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Free your inner artist with Sketchfu



Though it's possible that web-based drawing tool Sketchfu could be used for some kind of sensible business application, the truth is, it's just plain fun. Sketchfu lets you draw, doodle, and create your own sketches, or build on the drawings of others. There are dozens of colors to choose from and brush sizes range from tiny to the aptly-named "BIG." That's about all the site offers by way of tools at the moment but since Sketchfu is still in its infancy, expect more options to emerge over time.

What makes Sketchfu really spiffy, though, are the options available to you after you're done drawing your picture. Every brush stroke you make while creating your masterpiece is automagically captured and turned into a movie of sorts that shows step-by-step how your drawing came to life. Sketchfu also offers a few ways to share your illustration via email, StumbleUpon, Facebook, MySpace and even a few popular blogging platforms.

In true Web 2.0 community-building fashion, users can comment on and critique the pictures of other users and also vote them up to the "Most Cheered" page. Sketches at the site range from one writer's terrible attempt to try her hand at drawing, to some staggeringly awesome work by the truly talented folks of the interwebs.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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