Zdenek Miller, Czech animator passed away today.  Miller created Krtecek, a black mole famous to European audiences.  His color, characterization, background styles are pure mid-century gold.  [youtube trail starts here]

Famous Magazines' First Covers

$35 Indian Android tablet

Brian Eno on bizarre instruments

Researchers in England are starting a 10 year project to build the 1830s Babbage Analytical Engine
(nytimes)

If you want to play the arcade game Off the Waffle, you'll need to make a trip to Eugene, OR.

"You've never heard of this game. It's in only one cabinet, playable in one city and, generously estimating, maybe it makes a dollar a day. Nothing about this video game suggests it's someone's meal ticket, but it is. For life."

Formula for complete and utter Bayhem!
(or, why Michael Bay films make so much money)