Redux Riding Hood
In 1997, animator Steve Moore was given free reign, and the result was a Big Bad Wolf with regrets and a time machine, written by a guy who usually does sitcoms, designed by a guy who had never done animation, with a musical score of improv jazz and some familiar voices, including Adam West, Garrison Keillor, Mia Farrow and Michael Richards as The Wolf. Via Cartoon Brew.

This piece explains how everything you were taught about Native Americans and the First Europeans in America is wrong. Unfortunately, it's in Cracked.com's highly annoying "listicle' format. But if you can get past that, you WILL learn a thing or six. more inside

James and Other Apes I was going to post the synopsis of this project but realised that I had already formed the same thoughts as the artist before I read his description. These are great photos. more inside

Monkey Feedback Survey
Some hypothetical questions on the offchance that we do a rewrite of MoFi: * What would you like to see done differently? * Which features work and which don't? * What is something you have seen on other websites that could work here?

Publisher's Weekly's blog has begun making Literary Pie Charts for notable books. Only two so far (and not Weekly yet), but watch this space...

MoviesThat Come To The Rescue! A 4:30 mashup of over 200 scenes from over 100 superhero movies and TV shows.

Whitney Music Box via

François Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world! [Via]

May The Forth Be With You. Sally, that is. Francesco Marciuliano goes back to the first week of his time writing a syndicated comic strip and reassures us he could do better.

Urban Plant Tags for proper identification and care of things that just seem to pop out of the ground...

I Shot the Serif, but I did not shoot the sans-serif. And now you can too!

"In live-action films, motion blurs are natural occurrences. In animation, you have to make them from scratch. And most of them are pieces of art by themselves." yes, it's a tumblr, but a very good one.