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.