The “Fail Whale” is the graphic of a whale held up by a flock of birds illustrated by Yiying Lu (@yiyinglu on twitter) It is employed during periods of downtime by the social networking service Twitter.com, which allows users to submit and share brief messages known colloquially as “tweets.” When Twitter gets overloaded, users see the “Fail Whale” error message. See more here – http://www.whatisfailwhale.info/

Seems even the financial crunch has hit Wacko Jacko and in an attempt to still afford surgery to stop his face from slipping off his skull he’s auctioning off some of his prized collections. Some of his gloves, awards, clothing and artwork are amongst some of the items which can be viewed here. Link – via www.gardian.co.uk

Michael Bosanko uses only torches and a digital camera to produce the most amazing pieces of photographic art.

see more pwn and owned pictures at failblog.org

Ice Age – Edgar Müller – a Master of 3d Pavement Art – needed 5 days to the completion of this huge picture. Together with up to five assistant he painted all day long from sun rise to set. The enormous illusion is reached by applying the anamorphic technique to a huge pavement painting. Around 250 square meter large this picture is part of Edgar’s newest project. He paints over urban areas to give them [...]

What’s a Gravatar? A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on blogs? I use one and you see it with my posts. Yes, that smiling face to the left. When you post a link or comment on a blogsite with Gravatars [...]