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Remember back in August when The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman raised $1.3 million dollars to buy Tesla's old laboratory and build a museum? It looks like things are moving ahead for the project. The group Inman was raising money for successfully bought the Shoreham property last week. So when can we go play at the Tesla Science Center?

In what is obviously a sign of the power of the Internet, The Oatmeal's fundraiser to preserve the site of Nikola Tesla's last laboratory has already met its goal -- less than a week after the fundraiser went live. As of writing, there are still 39 days left to help fund the construction of a museum on the site. That first $850,000 is just for the property, after all.

Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal, is at it again. In conjunction with the non-profit Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, Inman has started a fundraiser to raise $850,000 to purchase the land that includes Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe laboratory in order to eventually turn it into a museum. The area is currently up for sale and there's apparently a second offer on the table from someone that wants the land. This could mean that the lab would be torn down to make way for something else, because we don't have enough shopping centers.

Lawyer Charles Carreon may have bit off more than he could chew when he delivered notice to one Matthew Inman, the creator behind the immensely popular webcomic The Oatmeal. You see, Carreon is representing FunnyJunk, a website that had a spat with Inman last year over infringement accusations. They're now demanding $20,000 for their trouble. And the internet isn't happy with that.

The Oatmeal kindly dissects the social circle and seating order at the high school lunch table of the birds from Angry Birds. Head on past the break to see the full chart.

(The Oatmeal via Geeks Are Sexy)

It was only a few short days ago that artist Matthew Inman, aka The Oatmeal, had his State of the Web making the rounds. In it were chronicled major internet events of the past year, and one stirring recommendation: Tumblr needs a FailWhale equivalent. In a startling turn of events, Tumblr has honored that plea. In the early days (ca. 2008), a lil' microblogging service called Twitter could barely keep itself online and addressed these issues by making their 503 error page an adorable image of a whale sinking the internet. The FailWhale has since become the thing of internet legend. Fast forward a few years and another microblogging site, Tumblr, begins to grow in popularity. As it does, it too begins to fail with such regularity that you could set your watch by it. And now, the Tumblbeasts have been unleashed; hopefully soothing frayed Tumblr users' nerves with their adorable green antics. Beware the TumblBeast, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! (Tumblr and The Oatmeal via Buzzfeed)