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On this date in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying a number of towns including Pompeii and Heculaneum:

Here are a couple of videos showing the ruins from those two sites, the first depicting Pompeii...

...followed by a clip of Herculaneum...

The volcano is till active, its last eruption in 1944:

Krazy Kat and Ignatz the Mouse go to the circus, and Ignatz shows Krazy how brave he is. She looks a bit like a monkey, but Krazy is a cat (or kat). This is from 1916 and is titled At the Circus:

One can never go wrong with Super Mario Brothers when looking for something to waste a day. However, this widget created by arpecop for Widgetbox one-ups (no pun intended) the original by offering an 'Editor' feature, allowing fans to create their own Super Mario level... very cool:

So what happens when you use 'Nuclear Music' as search criteria while visiting the youtube site?  You find yourself  tossed into the middle of a firestorm in Call of Duty 4. Here's clip from the game...

Note: It is a war game, so obviously there will be some violence in this clip.

Apparently this guy will recover. 

But he's still a dumbass.  Can I say that? 

The book, Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is published on this date...

ON this date in 1908, the very first cartoon is projected in Paris. The film was made by Emile Cohn, and is titled Fantasmagorie:

Yeah..there isn't much to it, but hey! it was 100 years ago.

In light of yesterday's topic, this week's cartoon will feature none other than Tinkerbell herself. And for a change, we'll provide a double feature:

It's easy to get yourself into a jam when you're a tiny pixie...

...at Disneyland, no less:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404192,00.html

I was quite relieved to find out that it wasn't the real Tinkerbell behind bars.