Always interesting to see what YouTube will turn up.  Have some Lego Hamlet:

This might be one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen.  It’s some sort of computer graphics test, so the author chose to do a recitation of To Be or Not To Be (from the credits it appears to be Brannagh’s version, actually).  So behold, a head on a pedestal doing Shakespeare.      

Ok, my friend Rob points me to this theory that the movie Strange Brew is based on Hamlet.  You know, the movie with Bob and Doug McKenzie in it.  Hamlet.  I am saying all those words together, even if your brain refuses to read those sentences. Check it out, it’s actually more than a theory.  I find it hard to believe that everything takes place at “Elsinore Brewery” and that the “owner” is killed by brother “Claude” being all just a big coincidence.  

Anybody besides me want a Shakespeare Portrait made up entirely of the script from Hamlet?  I’m just geeky enough to find that very cool.  Maybe it’s because I’m from the days of making ASCII art on your printer.  

Ok, somebody tell me how come I’d never even heard of Arden of Faversham, one of the “missing plays” of Shakespeare?  I’m familiar with Cardenio, Love’s Labour’s Won and Sir Thomas More, but Arden of Faversham is a new one on me.  Apparently it’s about the 1551 murder of Thomas Arden, mayor of Faversham, by his wife.    Anyway, a bunch of scientists claim to have proven once and for all that Shakespeare wrote it.  Using “computational stylistics” they’ve essentially created a fingerprint for Shakespeare’s style, and they say that the play matches with a high enough accuracy to state that it was written by the same man. Of course, nobody’s mentioning this idea that if you don’t believe Shakespeare wrote *any* of the plays, then this doesn’t really prove anything :).  What they’re really saying is that “Whoever wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare also most likely wrote this one.”