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Last week, you guys voted on how to spell the name of a Friday Awards recipient: "Frampion" or "Friampion"?

Here are the results!

"Frampion" got **tallying furiously** 21 votes.

"Friampion" got **tallying with angst and a cute pen**

Whether you're putting together a five-page research paper, updating your personal diary, or just instant messaging, your typing style can be as revealing as your taste in clothes. Are you a speed demon? Are you slow and methodical? Do you obsess over accuracy, or do you let the typos fall as they may, counting on spellcheck to smooth things out in the end? By conducting thousands, hundreds a handful of surveys, we've composed the following analysis of the most prevalent typing techniques. Read on to see what your style says about you:

To illustrate our posts, we use images from the bizarre and maddening site known as Shutterstock. Some of these pictures are so strange that when we editors stumble upon them, we email them to each other with subject lines such as "?!??!!!!!!!!!" "What the...." and "The people at shutterstock are on drugs."

We asked one of our favorite writers, Miss Kathryn Williams, to theorize about what the world is going on in one such confounding image. Here is her theory:

Scene: Gymboree. Two mothers sit next to each other, jostling babies in their lap. Both have strong Minnesota accents. It is 1998.

Mystery: solved. We finally know where Sparkler safetylast_23's nickname came from! —SparkNotes editors

After years of spouting useless Humphrey Bogart trivia (he got his scar and lisp in WWI), scoffing at new movies (Paranormal Activity? Puh-lease!), and enduring constant sighs from my parents and friends, I’m forced to admit it: I’m a movie snob.

And I’m not your normal movie snob, either. I specialize in being a snob about movies made from 1918-1959. Why, you ask? Well, I’d tell you, but it would take about 5,000 words and it’s probably a really boring story for everyone but me.

This is my list of four old movies, comedies specifically, that I think everyone can enjoy. This is by no means a complete list of excellent old comedies, just four that aren’t mentioned as often as I'd like:

Thought you got over DisneyWorld or DisneyLand when you turned ten? So did we, Sparklers, so did we...

...But then we saw the video after the jump, and we were re-charmed by the magic of Disney. Check out the technique called tilt-shift, which makes people look like little clay figurines in a diorama—we'd seen photos done with tilt-shift photography, but never a video. Our tip for taking this in is to watch the whole thing. The best parts are in random spots. Once you're done, rate the tilt-shift video on our -10 to 10 Scale of Awesomeness.

We were totally inspired, and wonder what you'd shoot a tilt-shift video of if you had the chance?

We love recognizing you guys for your creativity, which is why we're excited to announce the official e-opening of The Cute Thing Hall of Fame, a collection of each caption of the week. One Sparkler already has three mentions! Can you guess who it is?

Wanna get inducted into the Cute Thing Hall of Fame? Write your captions for this adorable birthday kitten in the comments!

Try to imagine a time before the internet. Stop looking horrified and just try. You can't, can you? The interwebs was a game changer.

Sure, we could technically live in a world that didn't contain the following amuse-bouches. But it would be a sad, grim world indeed.

Babies with moves. Forget that scary digitized dancing baby of the Ally McBeal years. Earlier this year, this little nugget showed us that if you want it, then you shoulda put a teething ring on it. Then this diaper diva redefined the stanky leg. And of course there is the boy in the red shirt. That kid's fresh.

Welcome to your weekly dose of happiness, Sparklers!

Let's kick off this award session with a vote: Which do you prefer, Friampion or Frampion?

In the comments section of this post, Sparkler sciencenerdess94 came up with the term "Friampion" to describe Friday Award-getters. (Friday + Champion = Friampion.) But others (myself included, whoops) have been calling them "Frampions." "Frampions" seems to roll off the tongue better, but "Friampion" is the original spelling. Which do you like better? Vote in the comments to determine the official unofficial SparkLife spelling!

Now, the awards!

You read that right, Sparklers: this week, we'd like to present some very awesome things, not thing.

We're amping up Awesome Thing for a special Awesome Thing-Off: a mini competition to see which new Awesome Thing in our stockpile is the awesomest of all.

Here's how to play: Check out each Awesome Thing, rate each on a scale of -10 to 10, then check back next week to find out which Sparkler suggestion earned the highest rating.

Thanks to everyone who's been submitting Awesome and Cute things. Your emails make us so so so happy (...and distracted!).

Let the Awesome Thing-Off begin!:

We're proud of our new 1984 Video SparkNote, especially considering there were a lot of Video SparkNotes that didn't make the cut. One rejected series was Math Video SparkNotes, a collection that would have included the following:

American Pi

Four old-looking teenage guys and one raspy bleach blonde who will later host a show in her bathing suit on the E! Network set out to find the last digit of Pi before high school graduation. The group's leader comes up with a foolproof plan to determine the fixed ratio of circumference to diameter after prom. While hanging out with their girlfriends, each guy except the leader realizes that it doesn't matter if he ever finds the last digit of Pi; the real fun is in the journey. The raspy blonde satisfies the leader by faking the last digit, and everyone goes to college happy.