Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Macy's parade makes key substitutions
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York will not feature Charlie Brown and Kermit the Frog this year.While the inflatable images of the two children's characters will be notably absent from the 2006 version of the traditional event, this year will offer some new gigantic faces -- the Energizer Bunny, Flying Ace Snoopy and the Pikachu character from Pokemon, said the New York Daily News.
United Press International - NewsTrack - Macy's parade makes key substitutions
technorati tags:pop-culture
The Art of Mordicai Gerstein
Along with writing and illustrating books for children, Mordicai Gerstein is a painter, sculptor, and prize-winning designer and director of animated films.Born in Los Angeles, Gerstein attended the Chouinard Institute of Art before moving to New York City where he lived and worked for twenty-five years making animated films for television.
technorati tags:art, entertainment
The Z Machine
The Z uses a short burst of intense electricity – only a few 10 billionths of a second long – that forces an ionized gas to implode. The process is called a z-pinch because the pulse creates a magnetic field that squeezes particles in the vertical direction, which math books usually label as the "z-axis."
LiveScience.com - The Z Machine
technorati tags:technology
White House Caught Doctoring Mission Accomplished Video
Apparently the Bush administration has taken the Winston Churchill quote "History is written by the victors" into the video age. The official White House website is now sporting a very different version of President Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech. In this exclusive video, Inside Minnesota Politics' Mike McIntee shows how the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln has apparently been crudely cropped out of the video.
White House Caught Doctoring Mission Accomplished Video
technorati tags:current events
Monday, November 06, 2006
The Flintstones and Jose Jiminez: The Time Machine
Here's another album from the Hanna-Barbera collection. In this one Cape Kennedy janitor Jose Jiminez (played by Bill Dana) accidentally activates an experimental time machine that takes him all the way back to prehistoric Bedrock, where he meets up with Fred (played here by Henry Corden) and Barney
Way Out Junk: The Flintstones and Jose Jiminez: The Time Machine
technorati tags:pop-culture
Tremendoustan: The Election
Ali and Habib were two Middle Eastern goat farmers when the United States decided to occupy their tiny country. Now they’re running for president, but can they beat the hand selected candidate: Nick Nolte?
Liquid Generation: Tremendoustan: The Election
technorati tags:entertainment
Beverly Hills, 90210 Stars Reunite
It was like old times back at the Peach Pit on Friday night, as the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210 – minus Brenda and Dylan – reunited in (where else?) Beverly Hills for the DVD release of the show's 1990 debut season.The stars, some of whom had seen each other at Priestley's 2005 wedding,
almost didn't show up for the event – some cast members discussed
skipping the launch because they won't benefit financially from DVD
sales, which were not written into their original contracts, USA Today reports.
Beverly Hills, 90210 Stars Reunite | Beverly Hills, 90210 : People.com
Friday, November 03, 2006
Suitcase Bike
the Suitcase Bike. Gosha Galitsky, a Israeli designer (now living in Italy) developed the concept (see pic of working prototype after the fold) while studying at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. He felt that, although there was a whole pelaton of folding bikes on the market, they were, “cumbersome, often heavy and difficult to carry.” Yet, he was quite taken with wheeled luggage, which he considered could be transported with “(relative) grace” and little effort.
Treehugger: Gosha Galitsky's Suitcase Bike
Moon Illusion
Step outside any evening at sunset and look around. You'll see a giant moon rising in the east. It looks like Earth's moon, round and cratered; the Man in the Moon is in his usual place. But something's wrong. This full moon is strangely inflated. It's huge!You've just experienced the Moon Illusion.Sky watchers have known this for thousands of years: moons hanging low in the sky look unnaturally big. Cameras don't see it, but our eyes do. It's a real illusion.
Now for added fun, turn your back on the moon, bend down, look between your legs. The illusion is broken.
technorati tags:entertainment, technology
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