Enough politics. If you've never seen Adam Benjamin Elliot's hilarious, heart-wrenching trilogy of animations - Uncle, Cousin and Brother - head over to Atom Films' stop motion section the next time you have a quiet moment with the computer. These 5- to 8-minute autobiographical claymations are like nothing you've seen before (and you need a refresher on the Web's potential for distribution of non-blog indie content, anyway). The Guardian puts it nicely in a review of Brother:

Australian animator Adam Benjamin Elliot's true-life claymation comedy is a bittersweet tribute to his bizarre upbringing and his eccentric brother, killed by a childhood asthma attack. Resolutely unsentimental, tender, and horribly funny all at the same time, it will move the most hardbitten viewer to tears. There is no better way to spend seven minutes 50 seconds online this week.
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These are wonderful animations. I forgot about what treasures are at Atom Films. Try Creature Comforts, too.