8,000 free fonts

Dafont is a site with nearly 8,000 free or nearly free fonts all neatly organised and regularly updated.  Well worth going to.

Optical illusion

This is a random picture.  It doesn’t have any movement as part of it, the movement is purely the result of tricking your brain.  (Thanks Marko)

Cool pools

Marko linked to a fun collection of “really cool pools“.  There are a few there, here is my favourite:

“This is a classic case of an ambitious architectural gesture with utterly pedestrian execution. a glass swimming pool over an entrance is a spectacular thing, unfortunately the surrounding structure looks like a freeway overpass.”

Barnsley’s high-tech commentary booth for the BBC

Great picture from the Barnsley game of the BBC pundits getting used to a non-frills day out at a northern football ground!

Need cheap craft resources?

Children Matter point out the Childrens Scrapstore:

Membership is open to groups working in creative play, care, educational or therapeutic settings. Although we are called ‘Children’s Scrapstore’ we do offer membership to all age groups.
We currently have around 1300 member groups. These are the types of groups who are members:
Adventure playgrounds, After school clubs, Art groups, Art [...]

Ice churches

Marko linked to this site which has loads of pictures of ice churches from “the 8th annual harbin ice and snow world” (in China).  Here’s a link to dozens more photos from the festival.

Shooting Jesus - images for Easter

I was given a flyer about these resources by our local primary school where I work.  Dennis Morris, world famous photographer, was commissioned last year by a vicar and a youth worker to take photographs that would give the Easter story contemporary relevance for young people.  The images form part of an Easter resource pack jointly sponsored [...]

Biblical text clouds

Check out Craig’s blog. Whilst trying to keep track of key words and phrases for his sermons he realised he could use tag clouds. Using tagcrowd.com he has ended up with some fascinating results (the book of Romans and the 10 Commandments):

Mars crater: happy face

This is a brilliant picture from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of a 3 kilometer wide crater taken on 28th January. Check here out for more information.
(Thanks Marko)

Grunge Textures: over 600 free images

Mister Nifty pointed out Grunge Textures which is a get site to get free backgrounds for your presentations. On top of that they are high enough quality to be useful for print design as well. As they say on their site:
We have a growing collection of quality images ready for you to download including Aircraft [...]