Rube Goldberg machine video contest

I've been working on some really fun books lately, and among those was Tony Mullen's Introducing Character Animation with Blender. This book is sneaky-good; not only is Tony an excellent writer and teacher, but because the DVD contains the entire Blender application (it's open-source, meaning distributed freely), the book actually serves as a complete kit to start from absolute scratch making your own digital animations.

The Blender community is small but very active and very vocal. They recently held a contest for animations of weird and complex machines--Rube Goldberg devices--and the winning videos are a lot of fun. The desk chair in the third-place video is great, but I like that the first-place winner uses good audio as well as animation.

What *are* they thinking?

Diaries of a dog and a cat:

DAY 771 - There was some sort of gathering of their accomplices. I was placed in solitary throughout the event. However, I could hear the noise and smell the foul odor of the glass tubes filled with what they call "beer." More importantly, I overheard that my confinement was due to MY power of "allergies." Must learn what this is and how to use it to my advantage.