I'll think of a good title later

Animator vs Animation part 1
Animator vs Animatino part 2

Fantastic.

That is all.

From Alexander Koutamanis' Minor Masterpieces:

Tremont Blackman singing "Mule Train" and accompanying himself with a tin tray. (1.7mb .rm file)

Useful note:

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My mum loves doing codeword puzzles(1). She goes through quite a few of these codeword books & often comes across new words she doesn't know & enjoys looking up their meaning. she often complained that kept coming across words that weren't listed in her current dictionary so I bought her one of those dictionaries that you could seat a family of 4 at for dinner.

A recent conversation went like this:

Mum: One of my puzzles today had a word that wasn't in my big dictionary.
Me: Really? What word was that?

Mum hands me the book & points out the offending word. I was all set to scour the internet for this rare & beautiful word's meaning when...

Me: W-H-E-N..WHENOMENA!? Mum, do you not think that should be a 'P'?
Mum: ...Oh, I suppose it is.

A friend of mine remarked that it could refer to the time that something extraordinary happens...

(1) Not many examples of these online but here's a simple puzzle for those of you that don't know what they are: available as a point 'n' clickable java applet or in printable format for those of you without java (they're both the same puzzle).

The instructions on that page tell you that each letter of the alphabet is represented by a number 1-26, & from that I'm sure you can work out that once you've found a letter that goes in a box labelled 9, you fill every box labelled with a 9 with that letter.

It doesn't tell you how to use the applet though. Click on a box to select it (it will turn yellow) then click on one of the letters in the alphabet below the puzzle - this autofills every corresponding box with that letter. Make sure you get it right though because there is no way to undo a mistake other than by clearing the whole puzzle with the 'revert' button.

Just bookmarking this because I haven't even got halfway through it yet, & it is too funny to not forget about:

www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com

OK so maybe I'm bitter but this is great:

<http://www.meish.org/vd/>

I like the 'consumerist' & 'Sugar-saturated fat' ones best...