We’ll have to wait until Brave‘s DVD/Blu-ray release on November 26th to see in full the new Pixar short The Legend of Mor’du, which explores the backstory of Brave‘s deadly bear. But this quick preview gives us a good idea of the look of the film, which more resembles a storybook than the slick animation of the feature on which it is based. What do you think?

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Wow. This takes me back. Navy archaeologist Steve Schwartz has found the cave of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas island—a.k.a. the woman who inspired Scott O’Dell‘s YA classic Island of the Blue Dolphins, one of my favorite books growing up.

Composer Quinton Sung has done something wonderful for our ears: He’s turned the already aurally pleasing Kid A by Radiohead and turned the entire album into super-mellow chiptune that can be downloaded for your listening pleasure. It’s a 44-minute long experience, so plan ahead for it, but if you turn on the annotations, you can skip to a specific track. Bonus: Sung also did OK Computer.

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Surely some of you are from the earlier part of the 1980s and can appreciate a little game called Frogger. Seeing it now is a trip down memory lane, and it holds a special place in my heart as one of the roughly five video games I can actually play. If I could just get my Atari 5200 controllers to work! Blast those things. Anyway, this version of Frogger is slightly different than the classic one. In fact, besides something involving actual (and ill-fated) frogs, it’s the closest thing we can get to Frogger IRL. Developed by Tyler DeAngelo, 5th Avenue Frogger is the original game, hacked, with the cars programmed according to actual New York City traffic on 5th Avenue. (Spoiler: The frogs die — fast.)

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In somewhat strange news, it was announced that Michael Eisner‘s production company, The Tornante Company, is developing a movie for the 1980s gross-out trading card characters, the Garbage Pail Kids. This will actually be their second movie; there was a live-action version made in 1987, and I could have used that as the top pic, but it was really off-putting. (Hence Loogie Leia, because: geek relevance!) Because it was Garbage Pail Kids IRL. So, awesome! I had no idea there was a huge call for this, but sure! Garbage Pail Kids movie!

Back before he became RuPaul‘s nemesis as as well as one of Saturday Night Live‘s worst hosts in the history of the show, Milton Berle spent several years trying to stage a career comeback after losing his luster in the late 1950s. His show was canceled, he was hosting bowling games, and he was desperate to regain the fame he’d enjoyed for decades. In 1967, along came a chance. Star Trek! Gene Roddenberry wanted him on Star Trek! But sadly (for Berle, shown above being upstaged by Statler and Waldorf on The Muppet Show), things did not go as planned. The writer of that lost episode, Norman Spinrad, has revealed the details of how Milton Berle was almost chewing scenery alongside William Shatner and how he found his lost script.

Human beings are animals — pure and simple. And every animal’s priority is its own survival. True, one’s own children’s survival is also important (the next generation carries on the existence of the species, family, etc.), but when humans find themselves in a life-threatening situation, natural instincts call for them to save themselves. That’s what happened when the Costa Concordia cruise ship sunk off the coast of Italy on January 13 — and plenty of men were seen saving themselves (including the captain), disregarding the long convention of “women and children first.” And while some people thought this was a selfish act by those particular men (because plenty more men were seen performing equally selfless acts), is the “women and children first” thing even an official rule? The answer: Nope. Not at all. So, why has it lasted all this time?

In a sign that academia clearly recognizes its target audience, one woman had the brilliant idea to incorporate history into one of the most omnipresent elements of the lives of college students: social networking. Namely, Facebook. With permission, Donnelyn Curtis, the director of research collections at the University of Nevada at Reno, created two profiles on the site for a young couple from the early 20th century. Are they posting about how awesome their 3:00 Pop Tarts were? No, but they are discussing how much they like Edgar Allen Poe and Scott Joplin. (And yes, they are “in a relationship.”)

Okay, some people know what “Auld Lang Syne” means, and some might even know some, most, or even all of its lyrics. But why do we sing it at New Year’s … and what does it mean, anyway? Is this something we missed in school? A lost relic of times when we, as a people, drank buttered rum and roast goose at the holidays, somehow stowed away in the dusty attics of our minds, taken out once a year and covered with so many cobwebs that we can barely recognize it anymore? Depressed yet? Come inside, we will learn this together.

Oh, remember the olden days, you guys? Even before Y2K, when the year 2000 was barely even conceivable, and that by then, we’d have flying cars and lightsabers? This British newsreel from the 1930s (Pathetone Weekly) has a look at what the space-age style of the 21st century would look like — to people from the 1930s. That means flashlight-headpieces, no more skirts, cantilever heels (these practical things), and climate control belts! And remember to fill your futuristic fanny pack with “candies for cutie”!

(via io9)