15 colors or less

Though it's been a while since it's received an update, DSicons.com remains open for (deceptively narrowly focused raison d'être) business. Yes, if you own a DS and play Mario Kart there are heaps of interesting pretties for adorning your hood, but for every 3-step template there's an accompanying 32x32 pixel GIF for use however you desire (some restrictions apply). Obviously, I likely wouldn't be making mention of these Nintendish pixellations if it weren't that a heap of them were pixelled by yours truly. Faves, followed by commentary:

row 1: all hail the King!; the aroma of coffee is absolutely heavenly, but its taste is just the opposite, and four bucks per serving is daffy; I enjoy the good doctor's soda pop so much that I often jokingly refer to it as medicinal (though no one ever laughs at my joke); once I got wind of the giant robots stomping all over Japan, the American automatons that could transform into cars, trucks, jets, a pistol, and a Sony Cassette Walkman suddenly held zero appeal
row 2: I have to sit down before thinking about that big red storm because if I were standing my deep pondering might make me woozy; the dead level coolest CGI creation from the entire Jacksonian take on Tolkien; Klaatu barada nikto!; I'd have to buy a completely new wardrobe before I could walk around with one in my hand, but since it's an unpleasant liquid I get to hang onto these comfortable rags
row 3: Mexican masked wrestling doesn't interest me, but I have seen the 1971 film "Santo y Blue Demon Contra Dracula y el Hombre Lobo" and I could not look away from it; I'd like to get you on a slow boat to China; when I owned a cream yellow 1970 Volkswagen Beetle I often considered two possible vanity plates for it, either 1DERBUG or POORSH (yes, I realize that's a mispronunciation); I sat in the theater watching Return of the Jedi during its initial release, thinking to myself how the droids got short shrift so kiddies could be pandered to aplenty with those infernal teddy bears
row 4: I didn't need a smug documentary to tell me that I shouldn't frequent the Mickey D's; 1970's scifi seemed a lot better back when I was a young dunce of a wee lad; it's still the pause that refreshes; sometimes I wonder whether I should have pursued a career in egyptology
row 5: I'd never purchase one (especially because I don't own a PC) but I love the logo, and competition, in the digital music market and elsewhere, is always a healthy thing; whatever happened to all the really groovy hi-fi systems employed by the coolest of swinging cats?; the choice of a new generation, but too childish for my thirst; who could have foreseen what Bushnell had wrought?

Comments

[angelday true]

I bought the DS icon pack a while ago and I even wanted to have my girlfriend drawn in 15 colors, but somehow the PayPal didn't work out. I so want to do it for this christmas.

Brian, is there a hope?

[Mr C.]

Didn't you once say that you lacked a great portrait of Elvis made by you?
You might have been right in the past, but in the present you're wrong!