Pretty busy week but I had to take some time to find inspiration. I gotta admit that I love flashy websites with lot of bright colors and illustrations that instantly draw your attention (there's always a limit though...).

So here are a couple nice websites and tools, both for inspiration and your pleasure:

SuperDuperNiceStuff:

• Swift.fm - www.swift.fm

  "Swift.fm uses twitter to create a custom radio station programmed by your friends."

  

• Dawghousedesignstudio - www.dawghousedesignstudio.com

  "This website showcases some of the work that I have created in digital media. This blog also aims to provide creative resources, tutorials, freebies and design inspiration to fellow designers and developers..."

  

• Albertlo - www.albertlo.com

  "I specialise in designing creative websites that provide a great user experience and using best practices in terms of web standards and accessibility. I make sure whatever I design is engaging..."

  

• Webdesignerdepot - www.webdesignerdepot.com

  "Webdesigner Depot is an exciting new platform designed to explore different web and graphic design techniques, great examples and best practices..."

  

• Nopattern - www.nopattern.com

  "Chuck Anderson (b. 1985) - Art, design, illustration, & creative direction."

  

• Picsengine - www.picsengine.com

  "C'est magique. PicsEngine a été construit comme une application réelle: vous déplacez vos photos, double-cliquez pour les editer, pressez shift pour sélectionner plusieurs photos..."

  

• getglue - getglue.com

  "Glue is a free browser plugin that helps you automatically find books, music, and movies through your friends as you browse popular sites..."

  

• Google StreetView (one step further on spying the cute girl nextdoor, you gotta love this thing) - maps.google.ca

  "Google Maps Street View: Explore the world at street level"

  

• Virb - virb.com

  "Virb is a community and a place for you to contribute the stuff that interests you. Virb is your social network, your photography portfolio and your band’s website. Virb is the collection of all that you share online..."

  

• Pikaboo - www.pikaboo.be

  Pikaboo is an audiovisual production company specialising in motion graphics, 3D animation and location filming. We bring our wide-ranging expertise to bear in producing and directing commercials, video clips, television...

  

For those of you still undecided, here are some awesome Halloween costume that will make you the hit of the night

• You and 3 of your buddies can rock the night, Donal Duck style
• Rubik Cube Dude (you're probably not going to end up with a cute girl by the end of the night, but people will remember you forever! or not)
• Bender the Robot
• Bumblebee from Transformers
• Carebears are always a hit!