Ryan at Pacing the Panic Room confesses that he hates the playground. But his daughter’s at the age when she needs to make some friends.
GeekMom Kathy got a kick out of the “Barbie Blunders” she found over at the National Museum of Play. Did anyone (besides kitsch-loving gay men) buy Earring Magic Ken? What makes the earring magic?
OK, so we all love Buzz Lightyear and Wall-E and Carl from Up! What makes a CGI character lovable and what makes some of them just weird? Salon talks to a Dreamworks expert who says that too human = too creepy. The Incredibles worked so, so well because the family weren’t too realistic and all of varying shapes and sizes. What are your favourite CGI-animated characters?
Check out this 9-year-old Tanzanian boy reenacting his favourite movie, Commando. Via BoingBoing:
Mommy Poppins has brought our attention to the fact that there is a ROALD DAHL cookbook. Two in fact! And in true Dahl-style, he titled them Revolting Recipes. There are other interesting looking cookbooks in this post, but the potentially holding the key to George’s Marvelous Medicine, some Wonka-inspired treat or maybe even Bean’s cider that the Fantastic Mr. Fox was so keen to get his paws on. One Bunchland staffer fondly remembers no-cook recipes from the Care Bears Party Cookbook and wonders how those recipes would hold up today.
Pacing the Panic Room shares an American Thanksgiving-inspired video. Baby’s first corn on the cob.
BoingBoing informs us that Threadless, where you can find oodles of superneat t-shirt designs, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary by releasing of book of said superneat designs. Read more...
