ABCDeology

Want to solve a puzzle? Unfortunately it is pretty much impossible for me since most of the symbols are archaic/indecipherable. (For instance, the first tree symbol is a Yew tree, and that black thing before the next tree is an Awl.) If you can’t get it that’s okay. The answer is at the bottom.

I stumbled into the image archives of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Most of the descriptions were in German, some things semi-translated into brief summaries in English. Although I could not fully understand the text, the images are by turns gorgeous, high definition, historic and scientific.

Children’s songs can be pretty damn good.

Yakko’s World
Sing along?

Animaniacs Animator’s original Yakko’s World had Yakko with a hat from every country he mentions exploding/dancing/being worn and dancing surreally, it was his “masterpiece”. Was told by WB brass “What the fuck is this? Just have him point to the countries on a map!” The original [...]