A taste of what's to come

I think I've hit upon an idea for my LEGO short for this year, and it draws inspiration from a animated short from the 1987 anthology Robot Carnival. The short is titled "A Tale of Two Robots - Chapter Three: Foreign Invasion" and some screencaps (courtesy of Lather's Blather) are provided below:

My first laugh of the day

At 9:09 am on Crooks and Liars:

Up

Today was actually the first time I had heard about Pixar's latest project, Up:



It looks like somebody at Pixar is a fan of The Crimson Permanent Assurance.

I see a "children in peril" thread here

They did it again:

Screencap of the Day

Watch the entirety of the Zero Punctuation 2008 Awards here.

Special Needs Spiders

I have previously pointed out the faults of IMDb's method of pairing pictures with news stories based on the names mentioned in the story itself. It now seems clear that it must be some automated program and not a human that's doing the choosing because this one has me baffled:



I can't even make out the name of the bad Japanimation pictured, but it would seem to have bupkis to do with the boy's tragic death