If you have a child, they say it’s best to teach them a foreign language young. What better way to do that then with a little panda friend?!

Little Pim is a program geared towards babies and toddlers, much like Little Einstein. Order a DVD set from their website in one of seven languages. Or, go for broke and teach your kid all 7 available languages before the age of five!

Only $59.95 for a language set, and it comes with an 8″ stuffed panda!

I have pretty bad allergies to mostly everything: dogs, cats, mold, mildew, trees, grasses, dust, air. If it exists, I’m probably allergic.

So, especially these days, I can relate to the cute little guy below.

This video features really tall, skinny trumpet playing pandas! Enjoy.

These commercials are adorable, though I doubt the pandas really are craving Beijing Beef. Maybe if it was called Bamboo Beijing Icicle?

Oh my goodness, this is adorable. This video explicitly takes you through every step to draw an adorable panda on GIMP, a free software download.

I’ll post my drawing once I finish one. Make sure to link to yours, too! I’ll add any submissions to this post.

Get to drawing!

From the NPR website:

I really don’t smile that much. It’s not that I am unhappy or depressed. It’s just not in my nature. I tend to take life a little seriously.

But, as part of my coverage for NPR in China, I visited the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding and Director Zhang Zhihe. He’s a gentle man who speaks about the giant pandas as if they were his own family. At the end of our time together, I asked him why he thought the giant panda bears are so popular. A simple answer from the director: “Because they make you smile!”

I fully agree. I edited this piece for the blog smiling and laughing out loud the whole time. This footage is a preview of a full report with Melissa Block that will air in May. Enjoy.

–David Gilkey

Aww. The rest of the world is finally catching on. Yay!

If you have Windows Vista, you can get this nifty little gadget that allows you to have the San Diego panda cam directly on your windows desktop at all times! I’d be even less productive than I am now if I had this installed.

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I don’t remember where I first stumbled across this short film, but I remember it definitely caught my attention. I researched it and found out it was a part of a series of podcasts released by Adicolor. This one is for black and was directed by Saimon Chow.

Warning, it’s disturbing…as in an alcoholic, chain smoking panda playing Russian roulette with a fish disturbing. So, don’t watch it if you don’t like that sort of thing.

According to the YouTube video and several other sources, this video is of a giant (literally!) burning panda being projected onto the side of buildings in Denmark. He’s one mad panda. Apparently they’re trying to bring awareness to the upcoming International Climate Conference being held in 2009. Mission accomplished.

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