This clip has been making the rounds lately, and it’s pretty amazing—it’s a performance by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó at the opening ceremony of SICAF 2003 (Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival). He draws everything with sand on a light table, using just his hands to create the shapes. It’s especially cool how he transforms parts of one picture into … 

I was just browsing Improv Everywhere’s web site, and thought some of you might find it amusing—they’re a group in New York City dedicated to semi-spontaneous public whimsy: Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has excecuted over 40 missions involving over 100 undercover agents. The … 

Just in time for Valentine’s day, here’s a great-looking game from preloaded. Help Cupid protect some fallen hearts from evil maurauding imps and devilettes, old-school Defender-style. Let ’em have it!

Well, more like “flu” or some other kind of crud is in the air, since we’re out of school on Monday to give the plague a chance to subside. But, with Valentine’s day fast approaching, I thought you might enjoy this educational film currently making the rounds, which explains in detail the creation of some of our favorite greeting cards. … 

Google’s annual Zeitgeist for 2004 has been finalized and posted. Check out this page to learn what the most popular Google searches were in categories like Images, Entertainment, Sports, etc. They’ve even added a fancy flash version this year. By carefully studying this information, you may be able to, um…well, draw…conclusions, yeah: conclusions about.…things and whatever. So go! Have a look! … 

Maybe the snow gods can be influenced with a little sympathetic magic, eh? Here’s a really cool Flash application that lets you cut out your own snowflake (you can save, email, and download your finished flakes if you want…), and here’s another (when you’re done with this one, you can watch it snow!). Assuming these activities do the trick, here’s …

Oh no! It looks like Zeus or somebody has stolen the sweet old lady who makes schnow on German meteorological maps! And now there’s to be no schnow on Weinacht!!! Fortunately, Santa Klaus seems to have been posing as a mild-mannered Wetteransager, and will try to save the day! (A Donkey Kong-like game mit Zeus und Santa ensues. Happy Christmas!)

AWWRIGHT! No school tomor.…DOH! :xeyed: Oh well. It’s pretty anyway, especially at night. And close to Christmas, at least. It just serves to remind us of the vagaries of local forecasting: “flurries with little or no accumulation” = 1–2 inches; “snow with possible accumulation of 1–2 inches” = cold and rainy. 😛 While I’m at it, let me get this out of … 

Send a singing elf card to a friend (or enemy?), complete with a tune you compose yourself! (If you’re not feeling particularly musical, you can borrow one from those left by others.) A delightful bit of holiday web magicalnificence from the always amazing Ze Frank.

Here’s a little web-based Advent calendar. Unlike the old-fashioned cardboard kind, though, you can’t sneak around and pry the little windows open ahead of time to peek, and then press them back in to try to make them look like they haven’t been touched…um, not that I’ve ever been involved in that kind of thing before. :nervous: (Um, the title …