My mom, a fairly talented amateur artist, sent me to a painting class at the ripe old age of 8 to start me on my way to a glorious career of artistry. It took all of about three lessons to; 1. realize I had little talent and 2. I preferred to watch the other kids paint while I drank my Kool-Aid out of my Spiderman thermos. Thus began my career of being an admiring art fan. And I am still one today. Check out my ode to struggling and not so struggling creative artists with the addition of a Gawker Artists banner at the bottom of my website. The art rotates, so each time the page is loaded you get new art, and you can find information on the artist by clicking the banner. Now get yourself some culture.

I found a great tool today called Ergo. Ergo is a very cool desktop search tool. After installing the software you can run a search, which brings in results from other search engines and resources. You rely on one source for your search efforts, or all at the same time. What makes all of this visually stimulating is that the results come back in a 3-D view which you can move around. The view range from 3D cloud, 3D cubes, tag clouds and 3D grids. It is very nice, you have to see it. Plus you can share your results with other users, personalizing your search results with a pen tool which looks like handwriting. I have seen the future of and it is Ergo!

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