Explosive Avatars - part of a site?

http://pop.pimpsofpain.com/showthread.php?p=32567#post32567

Its a tutorial on how to make these really nice avatars like this:

They do look better on a dark background - and if your using IE then you’ll see no transparency (an ewwy grey bg)
It uses sevenet 7 as the font but you can always change it.
tell me what you guys think?