January daft link roundup

Sundry links of no great sociological import which have made me smile recently...

The Internet

• National stereotypes courtesy of Google - "All of these pictures were the first Google Image result for French man, French woman, Mongolian woman, Mongolian man, Korean man and so on..."

• Ms Dewey – a new kind of search engine from those zany guys at Microsoft which resolutely refuses to talk dirty with me
  
  

• Uncyclopedia – like Wikipedia but riddled with lies. Which means that, in practice, it’s exactly the same as the real Wikipedia much of the time – I found the entry on Richard Dawkins (courtesy of T-Mix) to be particularly fact-packed and informative

The Visual Arts

• William Blake saw angels in trees – other people see goats

• Goats in trees - the video ...
  

'I have no idea what she's saying...'

• From the mind behind the excellent Little People Blogspot the slightly less excellent but still occasionally amusing A World of Birds

• Tibet - Underground Expeditions - the photographic chronicles of some loon who spends his time kayaking around sewers, placing malformed die-cast figurines at random around those sewers and photographing them. For some reason that I can't articulate this strikes me as a particularly French thing to do, even though I haven't the faintest idea what his nationality is.
  
  
• A short history of New Zealand flash animation
  

• A homage to Great Britain - from the same people who made the short History of New Zealand
  
  

'Prince Philip ... He's like the grandfather us Kiwis never had because all of ours were shot at Gallipoli...'

• Three blokes in an Indian call centre grooving - from the same people who made the homage to Great Britain
  
  
• OK, those three blokes are Malaysian, not Indian...
  
  
• A fine collection of on-line cartoons from the Perry Bible Fellowship, including a personal favourite line 'He wields the chaos grid'

• and, finally, Zen-like calm and tranquility available here

Oh, and I almost forgot this (thanks Rahid)...

'Fits Adults and Children...'

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