I am dumb, because I thought the quiz was a genuine piece of no-strings entertainment. If you get a final score for this monstrous undertaking, without signing up for anything, you are definitely a genius.

Anti-Matter Sputum From Beyond, the appropriately named, Cyber Tuberculoisis Pounder, or the Iron Turtle Blaster are just 3 of the Super hero names generated at random for your delight. And it is just one of many random generators from the site, Generator Land. It is a blast, especially when you get comments from people like The Nuclear Flatulence Bouncer!

Joke Opener generator

The Joke Opener Generator gives you a creative joke opener without the fuss of having to remember the punchline. That's right, you can't get these jokes wrong!

Check that out, cheesy jokers, and finish this opening line.

Eight drug-addled priests walk into a pizza hut...

Add in the Emo haiku generator, and the random excuse machine too, and before you know it, you will be ready for anything.

Thanks to Michael for sending me the details. If you have a joke site that I could bring to people's attention, email Ed.

So, the burning question today on the Web Tech section of the Pisstakers blog is: Windows users, do you still use Photoshop to capture colors?

The correct answer is AdesClrPickr

This is a loaded question that comes from Ades, a mega rich tech and money-making blogger from the Kyrgyz Republic, (that's right, THAT Kyrgyz Republic the favorite holiday destination of the rich and famous).

He knows that the answer for a resounding number of folks tweaking colors on websites is going to be "YES, I am a photoshop junky." But the correct answer should be, "No, I am cool and productive and use a color picker from Ades called AdesClrPicker."

What is AdesClrPicker?

In contrast to his other cool app, the Ades Nose Pickr, a web 2.0 Identikit droplet, the color picker is very easy to use. With a single click of the mouse you will be told the exact hue and tint of a pixel on a screen in either HTML, RGB, C++, VB and Delphi color codes.

You would expect Ades to play up the benefits of such a tiny app, making it out to be better than it actually is, but the color picker has plenty of mini features, proving that good things do come in small packages, all 1MB and change of it.

Color Library

If, like me, you have a terrible memory for 6 digit hexadecimal numbers and you are forever tweaking your site (especially when styling widgets), the Color Library is a useful feature, acting as a store, enabling quick reference to the color codes you use on a regular basis. The Color Library feature also allows you to change your colors and convert from one color to another. See, it isn't just a one-click pony.

A couple of drawbacks

Although I have to concur that this color picker really is a time-saving godsend for site owners and designers, it can't cater for a couple of mini segments of society. For instance:

Not all widgets need styling. MyBlogLog's visitor widget, for instance, is a bit of a fiddle to style, but some designers are so far ahead of the game (did I say Bonsai Studio?) that they code their widgets (did I say Funny Quotes widget?) to auto adapt to any theme, thus making AdesclrPicker obsolete. However, as most of us are left to figure stuff out for ourselves, make sure you have Adesclrpickr to hand for general use.



Windows only. Pah, Ades droplet only caters for 98% of the world. How elitist is that!! But if you have a Mac, don't despair, you have your equivalent StevesMacOSXColorPicker built into the Operating System.



Discloure: I am writing this so that Ades has a link about his product to a PR5 website, I mean, so I get a link back from his PR7 site, I mean, I wrote this to help you guys out.

Newshutch Nathan spends hundreds if not thousands of bucks on the slickest laptop on the market, and then is too much of a tight wad to buy a $30 case to protect it.

Even worse, he publicises how he spent money on fricking duct-tape to produce a solution that could at best be described as hideous, and at worst... well, you don't need me to fill in the spoofy gaps, Nate!

According to Techboggle, the sun is flaring like a good ole fat-splattered BBQ right now and could be torching some GPS satellites in the process.

If you absolutely rely on your GPS system in order to get from point a to point b, it might be best for you to hold off on that trip for a little while or else you might end up 300 miles away from the destination, especially if you have no idea how to read a map.

Oh dear, back to the old map!! A map is that piece of paper that never folds up correctly and is best held upside down by people who don't know their left from their right.

I was going to write about the RIAA offer of a $3k per student settlement, you know, the usual scary story that makes all music file sharers think, "It'll never happen to me." But you know what, at the bottom of the article it says there is no way Jose you can use the story without paying for it.

So I am not going to mention another word about their pissing in a haystack suing campaign. The RIAA are on their own with this one, so no change there.