I have a friend who swears that if she has a daughter, she will limit the girl’s exposure to fairy tales starring princesses and damsels in distress. She firmly believes that stories such as Snow White and Sleeping Beauty teach little girls to be submissive and weak, not be self-reliant and always be in wait […]
If You Watch it Backwards is a submission-fueled Tumblr blog which tells you exactly what would happen if a movie or TV show’s plot or premise were reversed. Some of my favorites from the first few pages include: If you watch Pinnocchio backwards, it’s about a fairy that turns a boy into a puppet, who is […]
Does anyone remember the early 90s Nickelodeon show Clarissa Explains It All? I used to watch it ALL the time, fully soaking in the witty narration of Melissa Joan Hart’s Clarissa Darling, enjoying her wacky outfits and accessories, and wishing that I too had a best guy friend named Sam who would climb in through […]
The Disney Parks Blog has posted the latest additions to Annie Leibovitz’s “Disney Dream Portrait” series. The three new photos include Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen and Alec Baldwin as the magic mirror from Snow White, Penelope Cruz and Jeff Bridges as the title characters of Beauty and the Beast, and Queen Latifah as Ursula […]
Last week, IBM’s supercomputer software Watson made headlines when it competed against two humans on the popular trivia gameshow Jeopardy!…and won. My first thought immediately turned to the famous line from the 1984 film Terminator: They say it got smart. In other words, OH NOES! A PENDING ROBOT APOCALYPSE!!! But before I could start stockpiling weapons, […]
Remember the Cars to Autobots infographic which left me wondering when the Decepticon version will be released? Well, the wait is over, as the good people at http://www.carinsurance.org have followed up swiftly: It is regrettable that not all of the art was available as is stated at the bottom of the chart. It also sucks […]
With just an hour before kickoff, I figured that there has to be some Americans (like us, who are stuck home with the baby) who will not be attending a Super Bowl party tonight and will be enjoying the game at home instead. And I’m sure there are those who won’t be watching the game […]
Carinsurance.org has created an infographic which illustrates the cars behind the Autobots. I didn’t watch Transformers much as a kid (I preferred the likes of Thundercats and Masters of the Universe), but J tells me that it was one of his favorite cartoon shows while growing up…and had the toys to prove it! He probably could […]
Remember America’s Funniest Home Videos? This comic, entitled The World Before the Internet, sure brought back some great memories. (America’s Funniest Home Videos was one of the few television shows that my family watched together, since fluency in English was not required in the comprehension of the majority of the videos.) You may also like: […]
When I was little I wanted to be an animator at Disney. And as I got older and became fascinated with computers, I dreamed of working at Pixar as a graphics designer-slash-engineer. My aspirations were serious enough to enlist the help of my uncle, who at the time held the very prestigious position of VP […]
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