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It should come as no surprise to regular Geekosystem readers that we're big fans of cartoons over here. We're also mad into things like particle accelerators. So when we come across something like this recent TEDEducation explanation of how particle accelerators -- or atom smashers, as they're more awesomely known --  work using the medium of cartoons, it's a match made in heaven for us. We're pretty sure you'll dig it, too.

Full disclosure: I'm not sure I will play Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. It's getting to be all summery, which generally knocks my video gaming down to pretty meager levels. What I can tell you for sure is that I will be watching this trailer over and over again, because it's what all trailers for all things should be like. It's got cyborg soldiers, cyborg generals who are also part-lizard I think, and a jaguar sort of a thing with glowing eyes that we can only assume is also some sort of cyborg. Seriously. It's the best. Check it out below.

Want to know everything you absolutely need to about Back to the Future but don't have the time to sit down and watch the whole thing? We feel that - after all, it's a busy world these days. Now, thanks to the animators at 1A4 Studios, you can just check out this speedrun of the classic comedy which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but still makes about as much sense as Back to the Future. All the requisite thrills, chills, and spills are intact, though it will come together a little better if you have seen the movie like a million times before this. You have seen the movie like, a billion times before this, right? Of course you have.

As I get older, every dream job I ever had as a kid seems to lose some of its shine in the cold light of day. Paleontologists, for example, spend much of their time filling out paperwork rather than digging up fossils, and few of them will ever clone and ride their own dinosaur. Being an astronaut, though? It's still an amazing gig that always makes me wish I was a better, smarter person who someone would shoot into space. In this cartoon from Ted Education, astronaut and former SkyLab commander Jerry Carr talks about rockets that were struck by lightning, the nail-biting anticipation of waiting to see colleagues return from the dark side of the moon, and why early astronauts had to know how to cook a snake -- just in case. Just check out the video below if for some reason you need a reminder of why you should be very jealous of astrnoauts.

The complex character diversity of The Transformers universe rivals that of the Star Wars saga and those of Marvel and DC Comics -- an impressive feat for a bunch of robots that turn into vehicles and other weapons of destruction. Since the Transformers' debut in 1984, both the heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons alike have conscripted a number of like-minded warriors to take up arms in the name of their respective causes, quickly swelling the ranks from a small handful to far too many for even the most dedicated of fans to keep track of. Granted, having such a massive influx of new recruits means that Optimus Prime and Megatron are bound to have a few that, to put it gently, didn't quite fit the model of the Autobot or Decepticon ideal. In other words, some Transformers were ten kinds of crazy that made their own comrades question their place in the war. That said, it's time to roll out with 8 of the most bizarre Transformers ever!

Fanboy alert -- we're just days away from new episodes of Archer on FX and super-psyched for the return of one of the best comedies on TV right now. It seems like we're in pretty good company on that front, as the supercut mavens at Slacktory seem to have their jones on for the show as well. So much so, in fact, that they've put together a spanking new supercut of the best barbs, insults, cruel nicknames, and malapropisms traded by the characters on the show. While it's not a totally thorough rundown -- missing are real gems like "Serves you right, Smacky Brown," and "Who am I, Alan Turing? He was also in X-Men, remember?" -- it's plenty to kill a couple minutes between morning meetings and whet our appetites for new episodes and the spectacularly cruel humor that will no doubt go right along with them. Can't. Wait.

Many are the times we have wondered to ourselves "In a world of so much turmoil both at home and abroad, wouldn't we really be better off with Axe Cop running the show?" The answer, you will be unsurprised to learn, is "Yes, and by magnitudes of order." If these first couple teaser clips are any indication, we're starting to move from excited to drooling over the prospect of full episodes of Axe Cop coming to Fox this summer. Get a load of the latest clip below and learn just the latest reason we don't want to be caught on Bad Guy Planet, and also why we're never voting for a non-magical President again.

Wreck-It Ralph was perhaps, without a doubt, one of the greatest odes to the modern video game industry as a whole and the golden age of video arcades during the early '80s. As such, if you're one of the unfortunate few that happened to miss it, well, it's a downright shame. Luckily, Disney won't have people waiting too long for a market release as the company has announced that Wreck-It Ralph will be available on February 12th... only as a digital download and via streaming services in both HD and 3D. That's right, those with mobile devices and computers will be kicking back and enjoying Wreck-It Ralph in a few weeks, while everyone else anticipating a DVD and Blu-Ray release is going to have to sit tight and ride it out until springtime.

We all have that one moment in our childhood when we "borrowed" our parents camcorder for the afternoon and attempted to make a stop motion masterpiece with the action figures we had lying around. But chances are the final product was, well, nothing short of absolute rubbish, with the camcorder always ending up broken somehow -- no matter how hard we tried to prevent that from happening. If its any consolation, stop motion animator Kyle Roberts has recreated the intro of the incomparable X-Men cartoon series from the '90s entirely from his collection of Marvel Legends figures, showing us all what could have been. Suffice it say that it's better than anything we filmed in the garage.

Earlier this year, Netflix's messy breakup with Starz resulted in an even messier custody battle, with the latter walking away with their entire catalog of Sony and Disney flicks. But now it looks like the world's largest provider of on-demand streaming media is on the rebound and has hooked up with the Walt Disney Company in a multi-year licensing deal. Cutting out the middleman, Netflix will now have access to the wonderful works of Disney and its subsidiaries, as well as no longer spending lonesome evenings waiting for the hot dogs to thaw in the kitchen sink.

Would you ever think that the producers of kid-friendly fare like The Fairly OddParents and Adventure Time would work to bring comic book writer/artist James Kochalka's Top Shelf Productions comic series SuperF*ckers to animated life? Probably not, and yet here we are. With a first season slated to be aired well into early 2013 and appearing as a joint exclusive between the official SuperF*ckers and Cartoon Hangover YouTube channels, you have absolutely no reason to miss the trashiest super hero comedy to date!

The Family Circus, a cartoon known mostly for loving Jesus a whole lot and making the antics of surprisingly large dog Marmaduke seem edgy for the last thousand years, is getting its own movie. Before you ask, no, there is probably nothing you can do to stop it. The thing has been in development for a while, and now has actual writers, God have mercy on their souls. I think we can call this the official time of death on Hollywood having any decent or original ideas. In the interest of cribbing from old ideas that are actually good, it's time to take the whole industry out behind the barn and do the merciful thing. Why? Because Family Circus is the worst thing in the history of time. Not the worst newspaper strip. Not the worst work of art. The worst thing.

Animator Evan Red Borja of the School of Visual Arts takes a rather humorous look at everyone's favorite preserved human cadaver: Ötzi the Iceman. We've written pretty extensively about the discoveries this frozen corpse has yielded, but Borja is more interested in who Ötzi was. Or rather, who he wasn't. Start your Monday right with this fun cartoon, after the break.

Cartoonist Adam Koford, otherwise known as Ape Lad, is a story artist at Disney Interactive, but also takes his cartoonist talent and freelances like a rogue illustrator running from various forms of illustrator prohibition, leaving behind impressive calling cards in his wake. Now that Twitter has changed its logo to something slightly different and doesn't want us to modify it in any way, we can appreciate Ape Lad's cache of modified old Twitter logos, from Philip J. Fry, to Yoda, to Cthulhu. Check them all out after the break.

It's not surprising that popular series like Lord of the Rings and Star Trek are often chosen as subjects by the LEGO modding community, but Alex Jones went a different direction by deciding to create a series of Inspector Gadget LEGO models. While his custom Gadget, Penny, and Brain figs are impressive, the centerpiece of his work is without question the Gadgetmobile. Ingeniously, Jones worked out a way to make the vehicle "transform" as it does in the show -- albeit with a bit more work. Now someone just needs to build an enormous The Claw and we'll be set! See more pictures, after the break.