After four sections on professional topics I thought it rather clever to include a “Play Week” in the 23 Things topic selection. I have never been a huge of avatars, journal icons or other image mashups. I have known people who spent hours creating the perfect icons for their Livejournal or fan videos for Youtube. However, I will profess an odd attraction to a particular website for creating avatars:




The cartoon nature behind the avatars always appealed to me and I have been an icon similar to the one shown above for a couple of years. Creating an icon can help create a particular brand on the web and unify profiles between different sites like MySpace, Facebook or on forums.