The iGoogle page you can get with your account is pretty fun too. I can now read blogs, while checking my mail, and look at the weather while deciding whether the 'word of the day' is suitable for a blog post. Having all these things together makes it much easier and it's quickly become my homepage.
One thing I like is having 'themes' to the page, you can decorate your homepage with themes on a range of topics, from comic books to TV shows to gardening. These things go across the top and bottom of your page and look something like this.
What I like is having 'Theme of the Day' which changes and features a new, often famous, designer. I've mostly had bands and female fashion feature as themes, but it is a fun way to discover new things.
One thing I have discovered and enjoyed is Scott Draves, a software artist who uses 'fractals' and computer algorithms to create art. An ongoing project is 'Electric Sheep' where home computers network together in a type of SETI project to create branching and developing algorithms to propogate and continue the artwork, creating new and exciting pieces. I don't quite understand how it works, but the results are stunning.
Word of the post: Taciturn- adjective
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