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An independent production from Okushita01 is making its mark on the web today. This brilliant animation was created entirely from the crafty movements of a single red string. The video intends to represent a range of human emotion emphasizing sadness and joy. Check out the full production below.

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WalletPop, a fun consumer website checking out the latest in consumables, doesn’t see much hope in Blockbuster’s latest and sadly desperate attempt to stay relevant. In the face of the flexibility and selection of NetFlix and cable companies, Blockbuster is trying to take on Redbox, a self-serve kiosk where you help yourself to DVDs for a dollar. But tech consumer writer Jason Cochran shows just how poorly designed this new machine is.

5 fatal flaws in Blockbuster’s new $1 rental machines (WalletPop.com)

The Onion’s hilarious video lampooning Blockbuster Video reveals how irrelevant the once dominant video store has become.

Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past

The government of Coshocton County, Ohio, has offered residents free wireless Internet in the block surrounding the courthouse, but that access was shut down last week after one user used the Web service to download a movie illegally.

Owner of the movie, Sony Pictures, notified the county’s Internet provide. Not knowing exactly what to do to avoid legal action, the county quickly cutoff access to the free wireless Internet. The service has since been restored and according to the story on NPR, Sony said it did not plan to take legal action.

Listen to the full story here.

If you are around the age as some of us here at BuzzMashr, the term TGIF has a special meaning: It was back in the 1990’s when your Friday nights were monopolized by Uncle Jesse, Urkel, Topanga and a teenage witch.

They were the sitcom shows that helped define that decades’ television experience. Remember “Boy Meets World,” “Full House” and “Family Matters?”

MovieFill.com has compiled the “15 of the Greatest Moments in TGIF History.”

Check it out! It’s bound to bring back some fond memories from before Friday just meant the end of another long work-week.

It seems Daily Beast West Coast Correspondent Nicole LaPorte is having the same issue with the new Twilight movie series that we’ve had with the Harry Potter film adaptations: They expect you, whether you have had the smarts to read the books or not, to just get it.

Details that were crucial to the books in the Harry Potter series, and now it seems the Twilight saga as well, are hidden, disguised or completely left out of the movie versions. Nothing frustrates a lover of the fiction books more. But just as put-off are film-goers who are surely entertained, but left wondering what the heck it was all about.

“About 15 minutes into New Moon, I started to feel the first twitchings of panic. There were no assists,” LaPorte wrote.

We feel your pain. Read her entire, very funny piece here.