From time to time, folks ask me what's up with the Henson company, since I used to work there, sort of.

There's just no good news.

Check out their latest project, The Skrumps, featuring utterly charismaless computer-generated mocap characters who are dull, dull, dull. (There's no embedding; and it'll load up at a very low res, but you can click "video quality" to fix it. Laurie, please talk to someone about Yahoo's broken YouTube ripoff.)

After spending years and years and millions and millions of dollars of a digital performance system, they've gotten quite good at animating digital puppets in a way that very closely resembles human movement ... and it all doesn't matter, because nobody ever saw Kermit and sighed, "I'd like him, if only he walked realistically."

Aren't there any talented people interested in working for the Muppets?