Sites worth a look

Web sites that deal with special effects and related topics:

Ryan Weiber's Special effects site is a great place to find special effects tutorials. He has helped create well known internet videos such as "Ryan vs Dorkman" and now works for Stargate Digital effects company.
You can find green screen equipment on eefx.com, such as green/blue screens, chroma key paint and screen hanging supplies. I bought a 5x12 ft (very good size), $71 green screen from them a while back and have no complaints, works very well!
If you have Adobe After Effects, you will want to download Trapcode's Particluar Plugin, with it you can produce realistic looking fire, smoke, explosions, rockets, partical explosions, snow fall, star flight, etc. Very cool to say the least.
You may also want to download star wars sounds, no home made saber fight would be complete without it.
You may also want to read my tutorials on how to create some simple special effects including but not limited to: light sabrs, juper jumping, cloning, teleporting, etc.- I've even got a video on how to turn a fat chick into a skinny, sexy girl, kinda cool ;)

Digg is a social media community with a slight tech theme to it that places popular, voted stories to it's front page on a regular basis. Find popular, interesting sometimes gut busting funny stuff, or submit your own stories and see if people "digg" it.
I always get a kick when I read the Drudgereport. A lot of their story headlines are pretty conservative biased and some of the titles they throw on there are downright stupid. BUT, new legit stories generaly pop up their first before they hit other major news networks...

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