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Turn Your Name Into a Face
Don't you just hate it when you sign up on a forum or blog comment system and everyone has cool avatars, but you don't? If you aren't too picky about it, why not just punch your name into Turn Your Name Into a Face, and let it come up with something for you out of 100,000 possible faces.Now, granted, the options may leave a bit to be desired; they're all black pixel art on a random pale background color. But there are enough options to be somewhat entertaining. It's particularly fun to punch friends' and family members' names into it to see what they might look like, or at least what you can tease them with.
What I'd like to see is a WordPress plugin that uses this functionality to assign avatars to blog commenters that have not explicitly given themselves an avatar.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mal said 7:08PM on 10-26-2008
http://turnyournameintoaface.com/?name=Barack+Obama
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Nate said 9:02PM on 10-26-2008
OMG FUNNY!!!!
ethan said 10:49PM on 10-26-2008
http://turnyournameintoaface.com/?name=John+McCain
Chris said 9:39AM on 10-27-2008
http://turnyournameintoaface.com/?name=Bill+Gates
Now that is no coincidence...
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Sean said 6:02PM on 10-27-2008
Finally, the Internet comes to the Commodore PET.
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ngauh said 12:07PM on 11-10-2008
I really like this thing.is it possible to use as widget for blogger..
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