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“Every Romantic Comedy Ever” by Jeff Wysaski of Pleated-Jeans is a spoof movie trailer that makes fun of common recurrent themes in romantic comedy films.

Coming soon to a theater near you: every romantic comedy that has ever existed.

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Mitmunk's chainmail tights don't actually appear to be on sale any longer, but the design is a treat.

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Update: Hurrah, they're back on sale (thanks, Dean!)

Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD have released a new episode of Epic Rap Battles of History featuring Rasputin vs Stalin. The song is available to purchase online from iTunes.

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“Inside Donkey Kong – Stage 2”

Netherlands-based artist Metin Seven (aka “Sevensheaven“) has created a retro collection of 3D pixel art that takes a look Inside Video Games. Prints are available to purchase online at Imagekind.

“Pac-Man’s Dilemma”

“Inside Space Invaders”

“Inside Dig Dug”

“Inside Galaga”

“Inside Donkey Kong Junior”

“Inside Defender”

“Game Over”

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Castlevania: Dracula X / Vampire’s Kiss, SNES.

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Ze Frank continues his witty, narrated webseries with True Facts About The Duck.

Maim Ixed on YouTube, who claims to be a dog, created an excellent remix of the latest single track “Get Lucky” by Daft Punk. They sped up the track to make vocals by Pharrell Williams sound a lot like Michael Jackson. The remix is available to download and stream online.

So I found out just by pitch shifting “Get Lucky,” the track sounds a lot like Michael Jackson. The “He-hee’s”, “Woo’s” , “shamonas” and other MJ sounds developed on their own when the track sped up.

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Bain de Minuit in Numero February 2012 captured by Tom Munro

For some of their films, Disney would film real actors so that the animators could watch them for reference. 

It’s silly to me that people think most animators just pull this sort of stuff out of their head. OF COARSE THEY USED REAL ACTORS (or whatever substitute they can find, usually themselves, haha)! One of my favorite animation books is actually called “acting for animators”…that’s how important it is guys ;p. Although it’s definitely neat seeing how close the reference is to the finish product.

Condom manufacturer Durex has announced Fundawear, vibrating underwear that encourages couples to “touch over the internet” using an iPhone app. Fundawear aren’t currently available for sale, but Durex Australia is holding a contest on its Facebook page to win a set of his and hers Fundawear.

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Philip N Howard wonders if there are any countries that have, on balanced, suffered as a result of the coming of the Internet -- say, because improved networks created so many opportunities for dictators to spy on dissidents that it swamped any free speech/free association benefits that the Internet delivered. So he scatter-plotted PolityIV’s democratization scores from 2002/2011, and cross-referenced them with World Bank/ITU data on internet users. The conclusion: by this method, no country experienced a decline in its overall levels of a democracy as it attained widespread Internet penetration, and almost all many countries experienced a rise in democracy levels that correlated to a rise in Internet penetration.

Are there any countries with high internet diffusion rates, where the regime got more authoritarian? The countries that would satisfy this condition should appear in the top left of the graph. Alas, the only candidates that might satisfy these two conditions are Iran, Fiji, and Venezuela. Over the last decade, the regimes governing these countries have become dramatically more authoritarian. Unfortunately for this claim, their technology diffusion rates are not particularly high.

This was a quick sketch, and much more could be done with this data. Some researchers don’t like the PolityIV scores, and there are plenty of reasons to dislike the internet user numbers. Missing data could be imputed, and there may be more meaningful ways to compare over time. Some countries may have moved in one direction and then changed course, all within the last decade. Some only moved one or two points, and really just became slightly more or less democratic. But I’ve done that work too, without finding the cases Morozov wishes he had.

There are concerning stories of censorship and surveillance coming from many countries. Have the stories added up to dramatic authoritarian tendencies, or do they cancel out the benefits of having more and more civic engagement over digital media? Fancier graphic design might help bring home the punchline. There are still no good examples of countries with rapidly growing internet populations and increasingly authoritarian governments.

Are There Countries Whose Situations Worsened with the Arrival of the Internet?

Indianapolis-based artist and father Ryan Hunley of Second Street Creative asked his cute little daughter August if he could help as she tried to buckle her seat belt. She quickly responded by telling him, “Worry about yourself!”

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Israeli animator and illustrator Leigh Lahav recreated a collection of hit TV show intros celebrating the quirky lifestyle of her husband Oren Mendezitsky, as a present for his birthday.

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“Awkward Handshake: The Game” by the Montreal-based Moving Mind Studio is a short video that imagines various social situations as a first person shooter video game.

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Whisk Yourself Away Into the Faniverse!

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‘Vision of Hell: Orpheus’ ground sculpture at Broughton House, Northants, Kim Wilkie

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Unicorns = Awesome

We love this lovely origami unicorn created by Yaroslav Mischenko, a talented photographer and paper artist from Kiev, Ukraine.

Head over to Design You Trust to view more examples of Mischenko’s folded paper creations.

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