Grandma, What Informative Graphics You Have!

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The tale of Little Red Riding Hood, as told by animated infographics, breaking down the route, the makeup of the woods and the nutritional value of grandma. Brilliant stuff by graphic design student Tomas Nilsson — yep, this was just as student project. Amazing. (Link via Listicles)

But it does follow the Brothers Grimm thought that the wolf was evil and we all now that neither women nor girls are willing to play the victim these days.

My, what a big bike you have! A not-so-little Red Riding Hood, rom a series of Australian shoe advertisements (go figure), re-imagining some classic fairytale heroines, including Snow White, Rapunzel and Cinderella.

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From the warped folks at SecretSauce.tv, with many thanks to the twisted folks at Kindertrauma for convincing me to watch it.

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An Indian version of The Simpsons, featuring Bartinder Singhson, Omar Singhson, Mar Ji Singhson, Lisajit Singhson and Mugglie Singhson and more Indian stereotypes than you can count.

Judging by its view numbers, I'm the very last person to watch this, but I'm posting it anyway.

The Singhsons is, apparently, a sHaMoZzLe Video Vault Award winning video parody created by Aaron Pendland in Portland, Oregon to showcase the creative talent of Pendland Creative. Maybe, but you can't view it on either site, so who knows.

(Link via Listicles: 7 Cartoon Intros in Foreign Languages)

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This ancient discovery was unearthed at the Austin Sketch Squad, via pop culture archeologist Super Punch.

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I knew you couldn't dive into a pile of gold coins! Finally, cartoons have finally stopped lying to me. As a kid I was fascinated with Scrooge McDuck and his money vault and for Richie Rich as well, for that matter. No wonder were so accepting of the weirdness of the über-rich, having been feed these tales of excess as children.

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Tonight's the season finale before the final season of Lost. Given the show's history, the past couple of episodes and J.J. Abrams love of time travel (see Star Trek) it will likely be a head scratcher.

Which is just fine with me. The question is often asked if the writers are making it up as they go along and the answer is, of course they are. That's how good writing is done — you have to see where it take you. If the whole series managed to wrap up without a few ponderables left over, I'd be very disappointed. You want answers to everything? Then don't ask any questions.

That being said, if you want a group to mull those questions and elusive answers with, there is no better place than Nik at Nite who, with her loyal readers, read the entrails of each episode and take you places you didn't know you were going. Highly recommended.

And if you want to hash over who and how characters have been killed off, look to Topless Robot's The 10 Most Shafted Characters from Lost. I totally agree on Libby and Walt, but who defends Paulo and Nikki?

As for the above image (via In Web We Trust) I once again have a cool, yet unattributed image. Anyone seen it before?

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Anyone know where this image is from? I've been scouring the interwebs trying to source it, but to no avail. It has the look of Family Guy, but doesn't appear to be. I found it on Nick McGlynn, but there was no attribution.

This is something I'm noticing a lot of tumble blogs — they often have cool designs and cool finds, but they are often a little lax about the giving credit, beyond the site they first found it on, which drives me crazy. I know I'm not creating anything original here, but I love sharing what I find and telling others where to find more.

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Had enough of these Trek posts and just wish it would all go away? Well, good luck with that. "...between our quests we sequin vests and impersonate Clark Gable."

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From Flickr user 9000, who has a whole collection of this stuff, via the equally entertaining Accordion Guy.

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Star Trek and Star Wars are like matter and antimatter: They cannot truly exist without each other (for both are necessary to keep the geekosphere supplied with oxygen in the form of new material), yet both cannot occupy the same place at the same time. An ascendant Star Trek precludes a strong Star Wars and vice versa, as both vying simultaneously for sci-fi fans’ attention would prove too nerdsplosive for the mainstream media to handle.

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That'll do, pig. You've killed enough people. Oh, come on people! If we can't laugh at this you might as well roll over, cough and die.

But if you haven't given up yet, why not look H1N1 in the eye with your stylish surgical mask. All the health-conscious hipsters are doing it. (Link via Gizmodo)




Ok, a couple more shot at the pigs...

Yes, I know, it's not caused by pigs, but it's just nice to see pork on the internet without it being about the web bacon obsession. (Link via Geekologie)


We should have suspected Piglet. Probably took out Christopher Robin too. Seems I wasn't the only one who didn't think it was too early for some swine flu humor.
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You just knew somebody was going to blame Miss Piggy. I mean, if ever there was a swine that would be spreading disease...
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Look, Twitter isn't the godsend some of its most ardent users believe, nor is it a harbinger of doom for communication and human thought. It's just another tool, use it or don't. Of course if you do, feel free to follow me: http://twitter.com/PoppedCulture

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