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This is a bit hard to describe. Just click on the site and move the mouse around. Kind of mesmerizing at first... then it harkens back to those paintings that seemed like the eyes followed the viewer around the room. From motionportrait - like they say, creepy girl.
Click here. All will be clear.
The Washington Independent has an interesting commentary by Ben Joravsky, a local Chicago journalist, about the remarkably similar parallel political between two seemingly dissimilar pols - Senator Obama and President Truman. In a nutshell he describes how both of them were products of good old fashion Democratic machines. Truman owed much of his political success to the notorious Kansas City mayor, "Boss Tom" Pendergast. Obama from the less notorious (and probably less corrupt) Daley machine in Chicago.
Heends his piece on a hopeful note:
What everyone is hoping is that once in the White House, Obama, like Truman, will have the courage to stand up for what he believes. Presumably, his alliance with Daley is the price Obama paid for the right to be in a position to achieve national health care. Something even Truman couldn't pull off.Again here is the link.
Every once in a while a "how-to" comes along that is really useful. Such is the case with this one from Wired about how to breeze through airport security. Even the most experienced frequent flier might pick up a point or two from this marvel of simplicity and efficiency.
One of our HigherPortalians from Canada, RuthAnne, e-mailed this the other day. Ya just never know what can happen when you find yourself on YouTube. She wrote:
My neighbor draws a perfect circle. Go on Google and search how to draw the perfect circle, second hit, will see the video of Alex. He's a math teacher, done this for years, made up a story about being the international free hand circle drawing champion (coincidentally, I've known him for years, from my hometown and was married to a good friend of mine). The kids at the neighbourhood highschool get a big kick out of it, the story he tells, the circle, the spectacle. A video gets taken last spring by one of his students and gets on YouTube. He's been invited to a million and one places to speak and draw his circle. Tomorrow, he's leaving for Portugal to be in a movie by a rather famous director there. The movie is called "How To Draw A Perfect Circle."
Go ahead. Do a Google search. Or just click here.
(Thx RA)
Just in case you are also one of the last people on this planet to have missed this synopsis of Star Wars Episode IV offered by a three-year old, here it is: