Baby's First Internet

This short rhyming story by Kevin Fanning and Kean Soo is a cute look at explaining the internet to your young ones. I am guilty of of partaking in at least a couple of these activities, as I'm sure most of you are.

I first heard about Kean Soo in the Flight comics anthologies. He draws some very cute stories, especially his Jellaby series. You should check them both out! I'm a little behind in reading Flight (there are now five books out!), but I've enjoyed each one that I've read.

Cake Wrecks

I got stuck on the Cake Wrecks blog again today, and almost couldn't pull myself away. Some of these professionally-made baked atrocities are so funny, you may forget to feel sorry for the person who bought them!

Although some of the cakes are just plain horrible for their "wtf?" designing (or total lack of design), I especially appreciate the misuse of quotation marks, horrible spelling, and lost-in-translation instructions.

Speaking of Taxidermy...

I recently discovered the Extreme Craft blog, (whose tagline is "A compendium of art masquerading as craft, craft masquerading as art & craft extending its middle finger") which wrote a feature about a funeral home in WI that has a basement full of taxidermied animal dioramas.

Their Flickr page is completely incredible! There are chipmunks watching a "topless girlie show", squirrels riding plastic horses, and a big fish wearing a monacle. If you're into birds, you might like the uber-creepy Bird Tree, which is filled with birds - some hanging upside-down from the branches.

I couldn't resist posting a picture of this Bucky Badger. Not so friendly-looking, eh? He might be attempting to use that football as a deadly weapon. I especially love that someone has crocheted him a sweater.

http://extremecraft.typepad.com/extreme_craft/2008/06/death-and-taxidermy.html
http://flickr.com/photos/extremecraft/sets/72157605431249252/