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Doctor Puppet promises to be one of the very best fannish celebrations of the Doctor's 50th anniversary year.

I do hope the BBC's lawyers don't squash it like a bug.

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PROTEIGON is a lovely bit of stop-motion video.

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Junaid Chundrigar's animation Disassembled goes beyond the cast of a certain current blockbuster, featuring all sorts of non-Avengers. I loved the … um … cartoonish nature of Thor's encounter with Loki¹ and the sight of Venom trying to enjoy an ice cream. Good work, strongly recommended.

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1. Though not as much as I did a certain distinctly cartoonish Loki/Hulk meetup in the film. If you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about. ↩

As far as I'm concerned, CollegeHumor's Dr. Who RPG video wins the internet this week.

[Via The Medium is Not Enough]

I meant to post this the other day: the Japanese trailer for Pixar's Brave looks very different to the ones we've been seeing.

I don't by any means dislike the English language trailers. I adore the way Merida decides to compete for her own hand in the second trailer, and the customary Pixar attention to detail exemplified in the shots of her loosing that last arrow. However, the Japanese trailer emphasises different aspects of the story that make it feel more like a Hayao Miyazaki film. Which, lest there be any doubt, is a very good thing.

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The Complete Works of Itchy and Scratchy.

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The Scale of the Universe Interactive: think of it as a Flash version of Powers of Ten, crossed with a Total Perspective Vortex.

Dr Grordbort Presents: The Deadliest Game.

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The Joy of Books. I'll bet you don't get that sort of unruly after hours behaviour in Amazon's warehouses.

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Lee Hardcastle's Pingu's THE THING. This is the epic extended cut, a whole two minutes long.

"Pixels" by Patrick Jean is both beautifully put together, and guaranteed to make fans of arcade games of a certain age feel terribly nostalgic.

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Probably the freakiest animated GIF you'll see this year.¹

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1. It may take a little while to load: don't judge it until you've given it time to load completely so you can see the animation running at full speed. ↩

I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.

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Commander Worf is BEAUTIFUL!

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In a parallel timeline, the revival of Doctor Who ended up looking like this.

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Yet another version of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot – this time in animated form. Still worth a look.

Given that eight years on David Fincher is still talking about his and Morgan Freeman's adaptation of Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama as a film in need of a solid script, I think it's safe to assume that this brief animation by Aaron Ross when he was studying at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2001 is as close as we're going to get to seeing Rama on the big screen any time soon.

Still, it could be worse. Fincher could have announced that he'd decided to take the project to TV in order to tell the story as a miniseries. A twelve-part miniseries incorporating the Gentry Lee-penned sequels.

[Aaron Ross video via James Nicoll]

Shaun of the Dead – Done in 60 Seconds (à la Brian Lee O'Malley).

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Spike Japan reckons that in the wake of the ongoing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Tokyo Electric Power company will be retiring their cutest mascot, Pluto(nium) kun:

Plutonium kun [...] appeared in a 10-minute anime made about a decade ago by the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (now the Japan Atomic Energy Agency), an industry body specializing in the development of fast-breeder and advanced-thermal reactors, an anime that was swiftly withdrawn in part because of a scene in which Plutonium kun gets his boy pal to drink a glass of liquid plutonium while he sweetly intones that "I'm hardly absorbed by your stomach or intestines and I'm expelled by your body, so in fact I can't kill people at all".

Good to know…