[d] enclosed in brackets chaotic perfectionist for hire

It's Friday, and we need something else to do, right?

I received a couple of files over Pownce of avatars created by various people, and decided to make one of my own (as I'm sure plenty of others have done). For the few of you who have actually seen what I look like, how'd I do?

It's from Face Your Manga, and it's pretty fun. Yes, it's another "make yourself into..." site, like the Simpson's Character Generator and the South Park character generator (among others). It also feel a little "Mii"-like, but that's ok. I don't have a Wii yet.

I'd like to see more of them... So make one, save it somewhere, then post the picture for everyone to see. Flickr works well for this, from what I've seen. Good luck, and have fun.

Let's say you have a ridiculously long URL to share (like something from Google Maps, for example), and you want it as short as possible. There are a few other options (tinyurl, snurl/snipurl/snipr, etc), but then I found is.gd, which is about as small as it gets.

Another thing I like about is.gd - if you put a hyphen at the end of the URL, the link will bring you to their site and show you what the full URL is... very handy for rickroll prevention (unless you like that), among other reasons. They list a few of the reasons as to why the site is so useful, in case you're interested. Oh, and do I need to say I just like the service, and that I don't work for them? Ok, I don't.

Any favorites out there, or do you just use whatever's around?