The 31ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema (31st São Paulo International Film Festival) started yesterday, and as it has been happening in the last eight years, I will spend the next two week watching films everyday as if there was no tomorrow. However, before it started, I was already busy writing about it and watching films all the days of the week, since the beginning of October on Cinematógrafo, my Portuguese language blog about cinema.

In other words: I won't blog here until the beginning of November, because in between the 5 or 6 films per day I sleep. Yes, it stupid way to spend time, sleeping, but I do that sometimes. And impressively, I will stay away from my (and any other) computer. That's the effect of this time of year on me: I discover there is life beyond the Internet. Until then explore the archives, visit the links, go read a book or go to the cinema.

I hope that all of you have a great time with Halloween or any other parties, events and, of course, films. If you want to find me, go to Cinematógrafo and maybe try the translator on the top, if you don't speak Portuguese.

See you in November!

Posted by Bibi on October 20, 2007 10:54 AM in Blogging, Cinema, Events, São Paulo ||

Once more it's time to celebrate the International Talk Like a Pirate Day. And I will do it on my way, sharing links, since I don't have any pirate costume.

Catster and Dogster users are also participating of this special day, submitting the pictures of their furry fellows dressed as pirates, with the tag "pirate", on Dogster and Catster.

Getting to Know ... International Talk Like A Pirate Day: an interview with Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summer and John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur, the founders of Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Many Books has a nice collection of Pirate Stories of digitalized books in the public domain to read on-line or download, available in many formats.

Photos from International Talk Like A Pirate Day on Flickr. Explore all the previous images or go directly to the 2007 photoset.

Pinup Pirate illustration created by the deviantART artist agrivaine (ChrissieA).

Pirate Pinup: the picture above is a self portrait by the Flickr user Danielle.

Pirates Of The Caribbean 1 and 2 in 30 seconds and re-enacted by bunnies, presented by Starz Bunny Club Exclusive, created by Angry Alien Productions.

Polite Dissent made a great list of comic-book pirates (and pirate comic books) to celebrate the day. (via Pen-Elayne on the Web)

Post Like a Pirate is a pirate translator which also posts directly on Twitter, Myspace or send by email the translated text.

Réunion de piratesses: a collection of illustrations created by several artists to a contest created by the French illustrator Delfine, on her blog, which theme was "fille de pirate" (daughter of pirate). Take a look at the illustrations and on the Hors concours illustration of the contest if you speak French.

The Pirate Pin Up Arrr Mates, the Sexiest Pirate Pinups 'n the Seven Seas. Sexy picturs of pin-up dressed as pirates, or something like that. The picture on the top is from one of those girls, Molly Roger.

Watch the classic silent film The Black Pirate with Douglas Fairbanks at Videos with Bibi, and the special "Talk like a Pirate Day" films Dancing Pirate and Captain Kidd.

WordPress users can Piratify Your Blogs using the Text Filter Suite Plugin. It turns yer blog into pirate-speak on Talk Like a Pirate Day! (via The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire)

The YouTube profile Offcial Wench hosts 23 videos of Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket. The last video added, Pirates of the Burning Sea, introduces the video game, "Pirates of the Burning Sea" for the release party in Seattle, Washington on September 19th. You can watch their video Pirates And Ninjas bellow.

Pictures of The Pirate zombie pin-up model. As a good pirate she has a parrot.

And the original Talk Like A Pirate Day site. It has some cool stuff, games and many other links.

Previous posts with pirates:
Devout Dolls
Talk Like A Pirate Day
Courts métrages Annecy
Piratical and Privateering Books in English

Posted by Bibi on September 19, 2007 08:55 PM in Animation, Books, Cinema, Culture, Events, Fun, Fun, Photography, Photography, Pin-ups, Video ||

Any plans for tonight? If you live in São Paulo, or nearby, why not go to a blogger meeting? It isn't an "official" blogger meeting, but there will be several known bloggers from the Brazilian blogosphere in the area of São Paulo.

The goal of this event is to promote the books of Biajoni and Alex Castro. The books are Virgínia Berlim, uma experiência, a romance written by Biajoni; Liberal Libertário Libertino and Radical Rebelde Revolucionário, chronicle books written by Alex Castro.

Biajoni talks about the event on his post jornal biajônico and Alex Castro in Lançamento Paulista. If you are planning to buy the books there, take a look at this list. More details about it:

Where: Bar Canto Madalena, Rua Medeiros de Albuquerque, 471, Vila Madalena, São Paulo
When: Today, Saturday, July 21, 2007 at 19h30
Why: To homage the authors, to see and talk with some cool people, to meet the writer of this blog.

And don't worry much about the time. It starts at 19:30h but it goes all night long. I will not be there very early, but I will be there until late (I'm the weird girl with the red hair). See you there!

Posted by Bibi on July 21, 2007 06:25 PM in Books, Events, São Paulo ||

I would like to congratulate all the women for our International Women's Day. I won't write any manifesto or any protest about the injuries that we are still suffering, all the prejudice and violence that keep happening against us. I will do something I do much better to celebrate this important day: blog links about it.

- American Women!: A Celebration of Our History. The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum's exhibit to celebrate 106 female personalities have shaped our American experience

- A Petal from the Rose: Illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. It's the first exhibition in decades to focus solely on Green's art, and this and the accompanying essay highlight distinctive features of her illustrations and working methods.

- By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920. A pretty nice collection of 38 pictures including portraits related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. Also featured are photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement - all evoking the visible and visual way in which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out.

- Classic Feminist Writings: the on-line archive contains classic feminist writings that helped define Second Wave feminism. (via Plep)

- Humor's Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes. This exhibition celebrates Ann Telnaes's generous gift to the Library of Congress of eighty-one original drawings that represent the range of themes that engage this gifted artist who has recently emerged as a leader in American editorial cartooning.

- IdeaFixa, a Brazilian art e-magazine, homages the women's day in its fifth issue with the theme "woman". Highlights to the illustrations by Jonathan Weiner, the Jorge Bispo's portraits of men in wedding dresses, the collages by Kareem Risz and the social critic of Lauren Greenfield's pictures. In Portuguese and English, with NSFW images.

- International Women's Day 2007 site: information about IWD events in many countries, news and pictures.

- Pages from Her Story: diaries, journals, memoirs, reminiscences, letters, speeches and interviews of American women divided in nine historical eras.

- Nine nice posters of Women's day at the Museum of Russian Posters.

- Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture's Special Collection Library acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.

- The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress. The papers span the years 1898 to 1977, with the bulk of the material beginning in 1948, three years before Arendt’s naturalization as an American citizen. The collection is organized in the following series: Family Papers, Correspondence, Adolf Eichmann File, Subject File, Speeches and Writings File, Clippings, Addition I, Addition II, and Addition III.

- The Water-Babies: Illustrations by Jesse Willcox Smith. Her works evoking the innocence of youth and demonstrating the artistry of illustrated books are among the Library's great graphic treasures.

- The Zora Neale Hurston Plays present a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist.

- United Nations' special site: International Women's Day 2007, which theme is "Ending Impunity for Violence against Women and Girls".

- Women's History Month: The Library of Congress recognizes the wisdom and tenacity of women throughout U.S. history, highlighting the 2007 theme, "Generations of Women Moving History Forward." It isn't new that the LoC has an impressive archive, but it's always great when they point to many of the hidden treasures of the site. Explore the sessions of audio and video, images (pictures and illustrations) and the collections. Visit also the National Women's History Project.

Posted by Bibi on March 8, 2007 04:19 PM in Culture, Events, History, Illustration, Photography, Photography, Posters ||

For all of you that celebrate... a happy Valentine's Day. I won't celebrate, but that isn't an excuse to not blog about it - it never was. And that's why I made a selection of links to all the romantic souls that read this blog, or that are just searching for pretty Valentine's day images.

- A Sampler of things with happy Valentine's day through his posts: Valentines Day Card, More Valentines Wishes, Vintage Valentines and Happy Valentines Day.

- Craftbits have a good list of Valentines Day Crafts: 20 Valentine's cards ideas, crochet hearts, Valentines Day survival kit, jar of hugs & kisses, and much more.

- CRAFT blog has a Valentine's Day Card Contest and Inspirational Links. If you want to join in you've got until this Friday at 5pm PST to get your entries in for the "Recycle Your Heart" CRAFT Valentine's Day Card Contest. Made you craft including some sort of recycled goods in your card, and submit it at The CRAFT Pool.

- Google's Valentine's day logo of this year looks yummy - Official Google Blog explains the logo. Melted chocolate just could be better with ice-cream! Anyway, the previous Valentine's Google logos: 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001 - and a Heart, 2000 - and that Heart.

- Love in the stacks is a nice post of the blog of the Digital Library Services from The University of Iowa Libraries pointing to highlights of their Valentine's day collection.

- Many Faces of Valentine's Day: Love and romance through the ages, presented by the Virtual Museum of Canada. An excellent on-line exhibition with many images of vintage Valentine's cards, images and ephemera.

- Send some love with fd's Flickr Toys, creating a a customized Valentine's day card from you to your contacts. I did one for the last valentine's day.

- The Firefox's maniacs have a very coloured card full of hearts to send from Spread Firefox.

- The Woodland Park Zoo offers four Valentine's Day Greeting E-Card with pretty pictures of animals.

- WikiHow explains How to Make Valentine's Day More Meaningful and How to French Kiss. What? Who needs to learn how to kiss? Eleven-year-old teenagers?

- Will it Blend? shows what you can do with annoying Valentine gift. Actually they said to not try this at home: too bad.

- YouTube also celebrates the Valentine's day with Dump Cupid video cards. Strange stuff.

And to those are so lovely as I am, a nice Wikipedia article about St. Valentine's Day massacre.

More about Valentine's day: Flying Pig, Zombie Valentine, Recipes to Valentines' Day, The Comic Valentine of mid-Victorian England, How-to Fold Paper Roses, A Flowering of Affection, For your Valentines' day, Valentines Book of Styles: a better use for furniture and Valentine's Day.

Posted by Bibi on February 14, 2007 05:06 PM in Craft, Culture, Events, History, Video, Vintage ||

Which are your plans for Valentines' Day? Something special to eat? Still searching for recipes? I have some links to delicious and easy recipes that would be useful to you (most of them via Slashfood).

- 52 Cupcakes has a very pink recipe of Kir Royale Cupcakes with Champagne Cassis Frosting for Valentine's Day.

- 101 Cookbooks has tons of recipes. Chocolate Recipes can be a good idea, like this Valentine's Chocolate Fondue

- Arts Culinaires has a selection of recipes for Valentine's Day - all in French.

- Brigadeiro is Brazilian chocolate fudge candy, usually make for parties, but I think that they are always a good idea. Wikipedia has the normal recipe and I make mine on the microwave.

- Chef Simon has two recipes to Valentines: Les cornets and Petites côtes d'agneau grillées à la crème d'ail - in French.

- Chocolate mousse, from Anne's Food, have a special touch served in heart-shaped ramekins.

- Cut Out + Keep teaches how to make Heart Shaped Fried Eggs.

- Dessert First's recipe of Cupcakes of Love.

- Hearty Ravioli: even non-vegan will love this beautiful recipe from Vegalicious. I think I will try this one, but with a lot of cheese.

- Heart-shaped peanut butter cookies by Keledy, at Flickr.

- JELL-O Desserts has an easy recipe of Valentine's Creamy JIGGLERS®.

- La Tartine Gourmande has a great selection of recipes and the tastiest pictures of food to enchant any Valentine. Just choose one from her archive, like Plum Cake heart shaped.

- Nika’s Culinaria has a recipe with citric fruits: Pomelo Navel Orange Custard Tart.

- Slashfood's recipes of No-bake cherry cheesecake for Valentine's Day, Strawberry Gazpacho and The Gaijin drink.

- Valentine's Day rehearsal: Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting and Salt, from E Cupcake Cupcakes with Pizazz.

- Tarzile suggests pasta: Linguini au homard en sauce de pommes d'amour vanillée pour la Saint-Valentin - in French.

- The Naughty Ice Cream Sandwiches from Pinch My Salt have a beautiful presentation (and look delicious too).

- Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies and Valentine Shortbread Cookies from Shades of Grey.

- WikiHow shows How to Make a Chocolate Bouquet and How to Make a Cookie Bouquet.

And still talking about Valentine's sweets, NPR has a yummy guide to choose chocolates: A Bittersweet Guide to the Best V-Day Chocolate.

Posted by Bibi on February 11, 2007 02:43 AM in Events, Food, Food ||

It's again time to celebrate the Groundhog Day. I know it's only celebrate in the United States and Canada, however I think groundhogs are very cute and it is a fun tradition, so I'm going to celebrate too. And the prediction of this year is early Spring, as the 45-minute video of the event shows.

To promote Groundhog Day this year, the Pennsylvania Tourism Office created a new site: Groundhog Crossing, with videos "documenting" thegroundhog crossing through US, from Tijuana (Mexico) to Punxsutawney. The videos, with a more dramatic story this year, are available at Travelistic, YouTube and Google Video. Now you don't have excuses to not watch them.

More about the Groundhog Day of this year at Groundhog .org, VisitPA and kdka.

More groundhogs on previous posts: Happy Groundhog Day and Groundhog 202.

Posted by Bibi on February 2, 2007 12:14 PM in Events, Video ||

I wish to all of you a
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Posted by Bibi on December 24, 2006 10:17 PM in Blogging, Events ||

Finally, the most loved day of the year (for some) arrived: Christmas Eve. Is everything ready for this night? The tree? Food? Gifts? Cookies for Santa? Your Christmas spirit? Well, I hope that everything is fine. Nevertheless, if you need of something to get in the mood of Christmas I made a list with some suggestions for this night with recipes, music, the history about Christmas, some Christmas papercraft for the children and for you, games and more fun stuff. Here is the first part of my suggestions. I hope you enjoy it!

Audio

Christmas songs are great, but how about hearing some stories about Christmas or radio programs about it before the Christmas Eve midnight supper?

Among the tons of audio files that you will find at Internet Archive, I selected five audio versions books, texts and even classic carols provided by LibriVox: A Christmas Carol, from the classic of Charles Dickens; Christmas Carol Collection 2006, a collection of traditional Christmas carols; The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry; 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, poetry by Clement C. Moore; Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus.

An Occulterati Christmas episode 5: A special Yuletide treat from Irreality.net, and a panel discussion of the meaning of the season. (via Gpod)

Santa’s Journal. Santa's Journal? Yes, Santa has a blog, and a podcast! - that's why the link is here. So even if you were a naughty boy or a naughty girl you can hear the wise words of Santa before and after Christmas. Have fun kids!

Storynory is a fantastic place to find audio versions of books and short stories for children. For Christmas they have A Christmas Carol, A Visit From St. Nicholas, The First Christmas, Tim Learns About Father Christmas and more. Make the most of it and subscribe the podcast to your kids.

With 8 channels, at Radio Nostalgia Network there is a big probability that you find something you like. They did some special programs for Christmas, like Ye Old Christmas Radio, with 13 episodes, Christmas Special #2... The Revenge!, at their film score podcast, Big Band Serenade 79 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra Christmas Eve in the War Years and Radio Journeys ... Christmas Special ... Commemorating Reginald Fessenden. Take a look thre for much more.

And if you are English, or lives in UK, don't miss the latest 'episode' of the Royal Podcast, that will be The Christmas Broadcast (The Queen's speech), which will be available from 1500 GMT on Christmas Day 2006. I don't live there and I won't miss it; this sounds very curious to me.

Food

What is Christmas without all the food? For me, the delicious food made at Christmas is the best part of it - maybe I shouldn't have say that. Anyway, here are some recipes to delicious supper.

At Flickr I found this fantastic photoset: Building a Gingerbread House - step by step. I have to try it one day, maybe soon I hope.

Expert Village has a collection of videos of Classic Christmas Cooking with 5 traditional recipes for the season. How about try Traditional Eggnog Recipe? I won't try this today. May I do this tomorrow? Is that ok? Let me know about it, because I never had it.

I tried this one today and it really works: Chocolate chip perfection. It's easy and the cookies will be delicious. Santa will be very happy if you make some to him. (via digg)

More cookies recipes, this time with a video and instructions of Santa Claus. To be sincere I used Santa's method with the first recipes of chocolate cookies.

Slashfood posted many recipes and links to Christmas' recipes. Among all I liked of this one: Vanilla Cutout Cookies. It looks very easy to do and the pictures with suggestions to decorate the cookies look great.

This is not part of the recipes, but it's food: The Christmas Tree all made with chocolate by La Maison du chocolat. This is definitely the best Christmas Tree I've ever seen! It's a pity that I don't live in London, Paris or New York, because they don't send it over here. (via Slashfood)

The blog The Old Foodie did a special post with Vintage Christmas Recipes. There are recipes of pudding, pies, Christmas Cake and drinks. I'm not so sure if the ingredients are easy to find, since I didn't check all, but it's always an inspiration to create new recipes. (via Plep)

And, if you speak French, try one or a few recipes for Christmas from Blog appétit.

Funny stuff

What is Christmas without some funny stuff? Some people have fun cooking, other buying presents, and other entertaining the family with amusing and funny stories. But while you are there, in front of your computer, spread some happiness (or must I say silliness?) with this collection of cool internet sites, or just take a look at them to amuse yourself.

Buy Nothing Christmas isn't part of the silliness, however it fits better in this session as the "spread the word" links. It's a new way to see and enjoy the Christmas: without all the stress and all the shopping stuff. They propose to you give something that you made, offer coupons for free massages - my boyfriend would love that - or desserts, or try something of their catalogue.

Does your browser need to be more festive? Try one of those themes for your Firefox: Tinseltown - I'm using this one and if you have many icons at your navigation bar it may get a little hard to see them; X-Mas and X-Mas (Light) - the difference is the CPU usage of the normal version, since it "creates" some snow to you.

Elf Yourself does what it says: it helps you to do an elfamorphosis! It has also an option to send your elf version dancing with a message - you must see it. And just in case of some of you ask, yes, I tried this silly stuff. (via Micro Persuasion)

I should have posted this earlier, but you can try it tonight or find the toys that Santa hid in Google Earth: Track Santa in Google Earth. Today, December 24th, Santa will load his sleigh, take the reins and soar into the skies, delivering presents to good children all over the world. And now you can follow his fabled flight in real-time. (via
Official Google Blog)

Mix-Mas: World Greeting Chain. It's a kind of social site where you creates an avatar with a message and spread it to your friends. In the site you will find the avatar and the messages of other people from around the world. We hope this greeting chain will spread the holiday spirit beyond country and culture. Well, I put a little message there yesterday.
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More stuff from Google to your Google desktop: Holiday Gadgets. There is a Christmas tree, a countdown to New Year, a Christmas frame and more.

Simon Sez Santa 2.0 has the same principle of Virtual Bartender and the Subservient Chicken. Just type and order, expression or word and see what happens. Try: insult me, yodel, sex, kiss, hug, dance, run, destroy, milk, cookies, book and sleep - I had more suggestions but I forgot all the words that I tried. (via Unscathed Corpse)

There are other options if you don't want to be an elf. Try PikiPimp and pimp your pictures. I'm suggesting it, because it has holidays and Christmas options to get a new life to your old portraits, like turn yourself into Santa Claus.

This is one of my favourites: Enlighten Holiday Party Excuse Generator. This is very useful if you were invited to some boring party or to visit a friend or a relative that you don't like very much. You choose the kind of party it is, what are your feelings about the host, how badly do you want to avoid the party, the tone of your excuse and how believable your excuse looks like.That's all: your excuse is read, just copy or send it to whoever invited you.

History

The history of Christmas is always good to entertain the kids, to refresh your memory of what is all about of just to amuse you. So, why not read about Christmas before, to get the spirit, or after open the presents, so you won't need to talk about the last news or embarrassing things to you?

Let's start with the basic, with Wikipedia. It has a very good article that explains what is Christmas. I won't say that you will find everything you always wanted to know about Christmas, but it will keep you busy for some time. The best part: the article is available, not all of it, in many other languages.

From the Herbert Hoover Museum, An American Christmas Exhibit: How We Came to Celebrate Christmas as a National Holiday. The text starts in 1840, with The Origins of the "Christmas Tree".

Salon has a nice article about Santa: The man in the red suit - An endearing enigma in a scarlet fur-trimmed jacket, Santa has spent the past 150 years spreading joy -- and shilling for Macy's, Maxwell House and Dewar's scotch. BTW, you must watch a short ad before read anything at Salon, if you don't subscribe to it.

The Library of Congress is a fantastic place to find material about the history of American culture. That's why they also have a small page about Santa Claus, called Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus. It's a kind of guide to know more about him, with links to help you to explore the site. Don't forget to check Santa Claus hides in your phonograph, an old recording made by the Thomas Edison Company in 1922,

The site from The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum, The Legends of Christmas, explains the traditions and customs, like Caroling, Santa, stockings, and gingerbread, that came from Europe, and other elements that are part of the Christmas in many countries, like the elves, the cards, the music and other subjects related with it, like the classic Dickens novel, the Nutcracker and even Rudolph.

How-to

Here Comes Santa Claus: Holiday Tips from the North Pole. Santa Claus explains How to wrap a Christmas present, How to build a toy boat and he gives a guitar lesson. There are seven videos available with Santa's tips. (via Making Light)

Lifehacker always have great suggestions to make your life a bit easier. They made a contest for holidays suggestions and those are my favourite: The giant wreath and The Advent calendar - that won the contest.

Is the camera ready for the Christmas pictures? So, before you begin, take a look at this helpful guide: 16 Digital Photography Tips for Christmas. (via Lifehacker)

Will It Blend? has many crazy videos about what it can be blended with the powerfull blender of Blendtec. I will die for it, specially because I could do some snow with it. Remember, I live in the tropical part of globe and it's too hot to have any snow here - with a lot of luck there is snow in southern Brazil (but not at this time of the year). So, if you also want some snow, and have that blender, make your own snow.

More

More about Christmas tomorrow and at Christmas Linkdump, A Christmas Carol, Cats Cards, Christmas BlogCard, Christmas Music Linkdump, Christmas Trees, Holidays without CATastrophes, Santa Claus!, Santa Santa Santa and Top 11 Ways Geeks Celebrate Christmas.

Posted by Bibi on December 24, 2006 09:21 PM in Audio, Events, Firefox, Food, Food, Fun, Fun, Internet, Tools ||

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you. We don't celebrate it here, but I know that most of you did it. So here are few links to you:

- 3D papercraft model of a Valentine Card at Canon site.

- Flying Pig Snap Up Heart free PDF model. This snap-up heart will tug on the heart strings of the one you love!

- Fuck Valentine's Day. Are you perpetually disgusted by the great marketing machine that advertises February 14th as the ultimate day to express your love and dedication? Take comfort in knowing that you're not the only one that feels that way. The art gallery is adorable. (via dadanoias)

- Lovely Valentine's day papercrafts at The Toy Maker: cards, boxes, puzzle and a hanging Valentine ornament.

- My Creepy Valentine: genuine valentines that no one with half a brain would send on February 14. Visit also the gallery 2 that is even worse than Gallery 1. This is the worst.

- Patterns to make pop-up Valentine's cards by Maria Victoria Garrido: 2 Cupids, Be My Valentine, Valentine boy 2, Be My Valentine, Valentine boy, Valentine and more.

- Send cute ecard with a cat, a seal or a dog photo at the HSUS (The Humane Society of the United States) site.

- Something Awful made a special session with Star Wars Valentine's Cards.

PS.: sorry, but I've been busy these days.

Posted by Bibi on February 14, 2006 05:28 PM in Craft, Events, Fun, Fun ||

Hey, I almost forgot that today is Groundhog Day! Do I need to say Happy Groundhog Day? I don't know, we don't celebrate this here, I just think that groundhogs are cute. I remember that the first time I've heard of it was when I watched Groundhog Day. That's a great film, I need to see it again. Anyway, there are some links about it:

- Groundhog Club with events schedule, faq, information (I'm late but there are more events tomorrow).

- Groundhog paper doll model with three options of clothes and a pop-up card.

- Have your own groundhog: download this PDF model print it and go with it to whatever you want (the best solution if you can't find one where do you live).

- The Pennsylvania Tourism Office made a site called Groundhog 202 with nine scary Groundhog videos based on The Shining to celebrate the date. I talked about it before, but they finished all the updates now.

More links and information about what the blogosphere are talking about it at Bloggers Blog.

Posted by Bibi on February 2, 2006 09:26 PM in Animals, Craft, Events, Video ||

And here is the second part of Christmas Linkdump:

Games

Christmas Greetings 2005: Brat Invasion. The brats are set to pilfer the presents from under the Christmas tree. You need to stop them! An adorable and instructive game, if you don't like kids.

Frosty Flips Game: Help Snowboarding Santa stock up on goodies for Christmas!

Holiday Express: a kind of Tetris with presents boxes as the pieces. (via NicoSite)

Jinx Episode 2: Miracle in the 34th Dimension, with an evil Santa. (via NicoSite)

Grow Ornament is one more "evil" Eyezmaze game that you have to discover the right sequence to finish the game, but this one is much easier. (via NicoSite, le meilleur du web pour vous...)

Lustiges Weihnachtskugeln: Santa is balancing on a snowball while he needs to jump the logs and throw down the snow men.

Santa Artois: Keep Santa on the straight and narrow by your mouse left and right as he drops presents down the chimney.

Santa's Ride: the same as the flying penguin and the other games; you have some energy and need to spend it to make Santa and his sled flying.

How To

All the wrappings: We've outlined some steps to help you wrap beautiful gifts in all shapes and sizes. (via Lifehacker)

Christmas Firefox Theme: all the instructions to make it, with two themes.

How to make a snowman ornament from a light bulb When your light bulbs die, don't throw them out. Make them into really cute ornaments. (via Make)

Mr. Tubbs, the Snowman - Crochet Snowman Pattern. 4 adorable holiday themed patterns (via Make)

Winamp skin for Holidays: Modern Holiday. Looks like a Christmas tree, maybe that's why I like it.

Paper Craft

A+ Snowflake: Paper Snowflakes, Free Snowflake Pattern Instructions for making Paper Snow Crystal Patterns. Many models to you have fun.

Activités de Noël pour les enfants sur Tomlitoo: Christmas paper models. (via Agence eureka)

Canon's Paper craft models: Christmas Card, Santa Hat, Wreath, Tree, Northern Santa Claus and Northern version 2.

Christmas Tree: scroll down to find an adorable tree to download and fold.

Flying Pig Christmas Paper Animations. Free models and links to more paper craft.

Flying Santa / Babbo Natale Volante by PaperPino. (via Paper Forest)

Merry Christmas! from The Toy Maker, with PDF models of boxes, cars, balls, calendar bag and Dodechahedron of Little Snow Guys with beautiful illustrations.

Paper Forest: Holiday Paper Forest. A collection of links to paper trees, origami, kirigami and paper sculptures, for the holidays.

PDF paper model of Christmas Tree, decoration and cards.

Peace in Paper Downloads: some models of Christmas and New Year's paper craft to you download and fold.

Sanwa Supply has adorable models for Christmas: cards, trees, ornaments, boxes and even a house.

SF Gate:Chronicle Holiday Cards to print.

Yamaha's Paper Craft model of a sled with two reindeers, a a Christmas tree card.

Videos

A Christmas Gory: "A Christmas Story" as horror film. (via Boing Boing)

Bizarre Christmas Musicians: a man playing a Christmas song in a keybo