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The White Rabbit materializes from a jigsaw puzzle and leads Betty Boop through the looking glass into Wonderland.

Vintage Betty Boop cartoon
Betty in Blunderland
, available to download at Internet Archive, and probably vaguely inspired on
Alice in Blunderland, an iridescent dream
. Not the best Betty Boop cartoon I've ever seen, however, it's still amusing and it has a dodo. From Wikipedia:

Betty falls asleep doing a jigsaw puzzle of a white rabbit. She "awakes" just in time to follow the rabbit through the looking glass into a modern wonderland. Betty meets most of the traditional inhabitants of Wonderland and sings "How Do You Do" (to the tune of "Everyone Says I Love You") to them. When the Jabberwocky steals Betty away, everyone comes to her rescue.

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How to draw a dodo? Jim, from The Daily Drawing shows how to draw a Dodo bird in a video (sped up). Great work!

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Classics Illustrated 49: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. ( via Free Comic Books)

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Image and audio (4'45'') from the booklet of "Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass" with Eva Le Gallienne and Original Cast.

Hádanky za bonbón : A wonderful short animation by Jirí Barta.

What song best describes your current mood?
Submitted by Section31.

Love will tear us apart, by Joy Division. I'm not in a good mood, I think. I'm more depressive than the last days. I will blame the grey sky.

Yep, I'm not feeling... how I say that... hum... motivated, but I found one more thing to do (yes, call me retarded now): add my wishlists of books to just one place. I discovered one more web 2.0 site about books, and it looks very cool, really cool. But after had added 889 books to my LibraryThing list I'm not so excited to do it again at aNobii. That's why I'm just making a huge wish-list of books. Actually this is the plan for today and after make a post about both sites.

If anyone is interested, this is my page at aNobii. So, what's the good news there? Well, it has some features that also can be found at LibraryThing, it doesn't have features that the other one has, and it has some different and very cool stuff. You can choose if you read the book, if you are reading, or finished or it's an unfinished book; you can add tags - as the other site does; you can change the color scheme - ok, that's not something essential, but I liked it; you can swap the book, add friend to your circle.. etc.. I'm still discovering the site.

Really cool, however what got my attention was the clean and very pretty visual and the way that the features work. I have no idea of what programming language they used to develop it, but I loved of how it works.

I'm glad that not all my books have ISBN, so I won't be so crazy to add all of them to another site. At least not for now - because that's how you add them to your "shelf" there.

I'm neurotic, but you are knew that. I put my books in the shelves by CDD (Dewey) and the reference books are in a different shelf. I can't control, that's stronger than me and I must keep them organized. So I long time ago I was planning to catalogue them. I should do that, because now I'm wasting a lot of time to add them to my on-line library catalogue at LibraryThing.

I'm stuck at the books about cinema history and the De Caligari a Hitler book,  about German cinema, is looking at me for at least one week. I think that I won't blog tomorrow to finish at least the cinema session tomorrow.

Anyway, that's my suggestion for the other neurotics for catalogue stuff or for those, as me too, that can't resist to join to a new social site. 

What makes you blog? One of the only bloggers that I know said that she blogs to feel better. That's a great principle, but doesn't work to me. When I'm feeling awful, as I was, I can't do anything, I can't think. So I don't have any inspiration to blog.

So why do I blog? For money? No, if was for that I should stop a long time ago. For fame? Not so much. For share interesting things? Yes, part of it. I also discovered that I blog to feel better, to show that I know something, to be admired for that and after this feel much better. Weird? I don't know, that's how I work.

Back to the idea of share interesting things: yes, I always like that, to tell to other people my new discoveries, share interesting points about something and sometimes make the life of someone else brighter. I also love to share free stuff: Wikipedia, Archive.org, Last.FM, Flickr, etc... they are full of knowledge and free information. Culture was created to share, so it's stupid keep it as a secret, don't share, and it's very selfish. I'm a bit selfish, but not enough.

I also blog to show how cleaver I can be, to feel intelligent and show how much knowledge I have of diverse areas. Ok, I'm megalomaniac, but I admit it. So, what's the problem? Anyway, I just wanted to know why people blog, so why not start for myself.

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