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These children were born too long ago; it is time to release them.

I’ve created a set of Windows batch scripts that retrieve (over the internet) and cross-breed Electric Sheep genomes, which I’ll show results for here. There are two galleries – scroll further down for the second.  The batches retrieve the sheep genomes (or instructions for creating these images) either by checking against saved image names or at pure random via the random.org number service.

The first gallery is of the parent genomes, and the second is of their children, nearly 500 of them, which survive many thousands of aborted children. They are interbred by both hand-picked and randomly picked genomes.  Many of these are rendered at a very high resolution of 2560 x 1960! Altogether, rendering these took a Pentium III machine working non-stop for about a week.

It is my intent to add these into the mix of my mass-customization product picker; I need to work out credit and payment sharing with generation 242+ sourced images. Images that say .242 in them are not free to reuse; everything else is. Note the links to show any showcased image in full, huge-resolution size

Here are the parents:

And here are the children:

Based on feedback I got from a post I made to the Electric Sheep user’s forum (here – including from the creator of the screen saver himself!) on the.. electric fleece? – I updated them.  Many ready-to-order examples at my zazzle page.

This is a t-shirt concept. It glaringly, loudly clashes with the colors of this web site! I’d post this into zazzle.com with my other t-shirt concepts, but I’ve found strange kinks in their design system I haven’t bothered to examine to work out.

Whatever kind of duck you may become this year, be a good one.

My wise, resourceful mother found this a while ago at an eBay store. The original is an image with text that is very hard to read, and I’ve ripped out the text and put it here with effectively the same images.  Here’s the link to the original, and if that goes down my own copy is here.  You know this is good from the combination of that picture of a duck with the first line. 

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This is a close recreation of a t-shirt my wife found for me in a thrift store.  It could be a reference to the Quakers, who call themselves "The Society of Friends."  If you click that image it will take you to a place to buy it.

Also, here is a t-shirt inspired of the APOCALYPTO-related typo mentioned here.

(If you’re not seeing the first image, it says "GALAXY OF FRIENDS" in big blue sans-serif lettering, on a yellow background, with purple stars and a crescent moon.)

Here are three new shirt designs, one of them inspired by this holiday.

From the first one you may ask, and no, I’m not all against that.  And these are all in, and link to, my new t-shirt gallery that I’m having a lot of fun making.

I ran accross this site that lets you design and sell t-shirts. I get a 10 percent cut of whatever they sell that I’ve made. Thar they be. After designing one and then adding other designs to my account, I discovered that they all show up in that there flash object thingy.

This was my first design – PLAIN WHITE. This was my brother’s idea. I am a thief. Get Ethnic. Validate your inner whiteness. If you happen to be white. Or even not.