• Tasha Yar's Revenge (2002.08.26)
  Take Denise Crosby ("Star Trek: The Next Generation"'s 'Tasha Yar' character) and the classic Atari 2600 game "Yar's Revenge," and put them together.

• Wil Wheaton (2002.04.20)
  Wil Wheaton tweaked in various ways, mainly for FARK contests.

Star Wars Related

• Star Wars Attack of the Clones (2002.05.22)
  Here are the kinds of clones I thought of when I first heard the title of "Star Wars: Episode 2." (I added the "CSPAN" line later; it's a quote from movie reviewer Frank DeCaro.)

Bizarre

• Sir Pixelot (2006.08.08)
  Listening to too much MC Frontalot and MC Hawking, together with sleep deprevation. 30 seconds in GIMP.

• Trogdor vs. San Diego (2003.10.27)
  Trogdor the burninator is apparently to blame for the fires in Southern California.

• Tron Paul (2008.03.24)
  Some friends of mine are Ron Paul fanatics. I'm a TRON fanatic. I couldn't resist the pun.

Miscellaneous

• Picn*x11 T-Shirt (2002)
  The t-shirt art I designed for the Linux 11th anniversary picnic.

Examples

• Blueprint House (2002.11.19)
  How to turn a photo of a house into something that looks more like a blueprint. Example shown using The Gimp and NetPBM, but it should apply to any decent graphics too.

• Godzilla attacks San Francisco (2002.12.16)
  How to make a mask using a city skyline.

• Gimp Layer Blending (2003.12.09)
  Examples of blending two layers using Opacity control, and using Layer Alpha Channel with gradient in its canvas.

• Using Blur and Alpha Masks to Create a Stalactite (2004.03.11)
  Discussing ways to draw a stalactite enemy in the game Super Tux, I decided to suggest what the image would look like if we blurred the background before drawing the shape.