From Slate writeup (http://www.slate.com/id/2197041): "Fifty years ago, oil was discovered in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Today, at 2.1 million barrels per day, Nigeria is the sixth-largest oil-producing... more inside

Trailer from the 1967 Rankin-Bass animated feature Mad Monster Party.

Cloris Leachman introducing Schoolhouse Rock on the 1987 VHS release.

From YT: "This video is part of Kitchen Gardeners International's "Eat the View" campaign to convert part of the White House lawn into an edible landscape. It features KGI founder, Roger Doiron, digging a new garden on his "white house" lawn."

Original source. "A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death. Created at the UCLA Animation Workshop, with music by Nick Fevola."

March 10th was the 49th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising which resulted in the exile of the Dalai Lama. This was supposedly captured inside Lhasa. BoingBoing's coverage: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/1... more inside