Dead ringer: Having a portrait made in the old days meant sitting for hours in front of some pompous artisto with a dandy moustache and a floppy hat only to have him exaggerate your nose, leading to hundreds of thousands of people in some museum pointing out the famous painting, "Man With Banana Nose." Well technology has changed all that. Portrait Illustration Maker allows you to combine eyes, noses, hair and other facial parts to create your own like-a-look. The results are uncanny, in a Turbo Grafx 16 sort of way. Give yourself to the ages at http://illustmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml.

Hardware hard-on: Whether you're into cars, bodies or boobs, there's a rate-my-whatever site for you. But what if your passion is computer hardware? Well, pay a visit to AMI BIOS or NOT?, a site whose name alone is so geeky that it defies rational explanation. Rate motherboards (for real) at www.amibiosornot.com.

Comments? Michael Citrome