Creating a vector image of yourself or drawing a cartoonish character isn’t very easy.
In this post I focused on collecting some of best tutorials on creating and drawing vector images including human faces, animals and cartoonish characters.
In the first part there are 13 tutorials on vectorizing photos and the other part is related to character drawing tutorials. If you would like to create a vector image from your photo, you’ll need to read these tutorials carefully...

Socialbrowse, the Firefox plugin that lets you surf the Web in a link-sharing social manner, has just re-released its service with a couple of major new features. The Y Combinator-backed startup as been in private beta for some time, and will remain in private beta for a little while longer, but those users testing the service will be able to access and utilize its new features (get your invite below).

When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty cool results. NETTUTS has published a tutorial (Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP) for creating a poll using PHP and XHTML, then make use of some jQuery Ajax effects to eliminate the need for a page refresh, and to give it a nice little bit of animation...

Spacegallery is a very simple but nice image gallery built with jQuery.
It is a static gallery where images are hardcoded in the HTML and presented with a beautiful grow - fade out effect...