Spraycan - vandalise your page
This is what Mitya does when he's bored. This allows you - or rather your site visitors - to take a break from reading your blurb and graffiti your page like it was a wall.
Once the ap starts, you paint by clicking and dragging on the screen. A toolbox allows you to pick the brush colour and size.
Click here to vandalise my homepage. I know, I know. I did tell you I was bored.
Head over here to download, get usage info or view a demo.
The only problem is that clicking and dragging always means selecting text. To my mind there's no way around this apart from in IE (which defines a special text select event, whereas in other browsers you can only return false from the onmouseodwn event - not really an option for a script that listens for mousedown to know when to start painting).
One possible fix would be to append brush strokes to a new, invisible canvass rather than to the itself. Then, during painting, calling event.stopPropagation() would ensure the drag action never made it as far as the body's text elements.
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