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Shirt Folding - Dragon Style

Some one once asked me where I learned my shirt folding technique. (Yes they did, they really did ask me about shirt folding, no really they did, I swear!) I told them that I learned it on some Japanese video I found on the Internet. If you would like to see it yourself, you can find it here:

Dragon T-Shirt Style

Klingons for Kerry

Fierce warrior race strongly backs Democrat.


Origanly posteed on Meta Filter.

Daily Show viewers Smarter Then O'Reilly Viewers

This popped up on boing boing. I love the Daliy Show, apperently Fox News Channel Bill O'Reilly show called the Daily Show's viewers a bunch of "Stoned Slackers". This was in the same month the Jon Stewart visited the O'Reilly show. So what did Comedy Central do? They did their research:

"Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor," according to Nielsen Media Research."

"Comedy Central also touted a recent study by the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey, which said young viewers of "The Daily Show" were more likely to answer questions about politics correctly than those who don't."

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But my favoret part of the article is this:

So they did a little research. And guess whose audience is more educated?

Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor," according to Nielsen Media Research.

O'Reilly's teasing came when Stewart appeared on his show earlier this month.

"You know what's really frightening?" O'Reilly said. "You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it's true. You've got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night and they can vote."

O'Reilly appears on the Daily Show on Oct. 7th

Saddam Bin Laden

Why they won't let Rumsfild speek in public any more. Funny video, must see:

http://www.reifman.org/home/reifman/rumsfield.mov

I worked with this animator named Gavin when I was at Wild Brain. Gavin was a great artist and liked to draw characters. He sometimes drew pictures or me. I told Gavin about my history, my education and a lot about me. He had a lot of respect for me and my intelligence. His respect shows through the drawings he made of me.

My Dad toured the Heineken factory. If you see my dad ask him about the "e" on the bottle.

Bush on OB/GYNs (no pun intended)

This is a great news clip on another Bush flub. The best part about this video is after the news clip of Bush's speach:

http://homepage.mac.com/njenson/movies/lovedocs.mov

Eisner Publishes His Resignation Letter, and Announces His Predecessor

Don't get too excited, Eisner's contract was due to end in Sept. 2006 and this resignation is set for Sept. 2006. So it doesn't change anything. My guess is that he's retiring in order to keep Pixar with Disney. The first film that Pixar was due to release outside of the Disney contract was in 2006, Eisener was one of Pixar's biggest reason for not renewing.

Eisner has announced his preferred predecessor: Robert Iger. Iger has about a 60% chance of replacing Eisner, so who knows if he'll get it.

You can read his resignation letter here.

CNN has a good report on it here.

Frank Thomas Passed Away Today

Frank Thomas, a legendary animator from Disney (one of the "Nine Old Men") has passed away today. Frank joined the Disney studio in 1934 and retired in 1978. He worked on all the classic feature films starting with Snow White. He animated some of the most well known moments of some of Disney's feature films, including Bambi and Thumper on the ice and the spaghetti scene in Lady and the Tramp.

After working at Disney he worked with one of the other legendary animators from Disney Ollie Johnston to write books. One of his books "Disney Animation: The Illusion Of Life" is arguably considered the Bible of animation.

Frank was 92

Frank And Ollie have a website you can find it here:

http://www.frankanollie.com/

Frank's bio can be found here:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0858826/


More about the Nine Old Men can be found here:

http://www.hollowhill.com/gm/library/9oldmen.htm

Stinky Robots

I found this today, and I just couldn't pass up posting it here. It's about self sufficient robots. So far the robot doesn't look like it will be able to do anything more then just supply it's own power source, but it's an interesting idea. (I doubt Sony will come out with their own version any time soon.)

It may eat flies and stink to high heaven, but if this robot works, it will be an important step towards making robots fully autonomous.

Vote for me or die.

I thought this made a good QOTD:

"Dick Cheney warned voters Tuesday that if John Kerry wins the
election, America will be in more danger. But it wasn't clear
if Cheney meant the danger would come from the terrorists or an
angry Zell Miller." (Jacob Novak - http://jakejakeny.blogspot.com)

Sunday Bloody Sunday "Sung" by GW Bush

Yes you read that right:

http://ca.lcul.us/sunday.mp3

SF Housing

A friend of mine just bought a house today. It's a Fixer-upper that cost him well over half a million. When I say fixer-upper I mean there are some things missing that he'll have to fix before he can move in. Things like pluming. It doesn't have any.

I'm trying not to be jealous.

No really!


Here's a link to his house blog:

http://jonhandhisdog.com/emerald-hills/

QOTD

Back in 2000 a Republican friend warned me that if I voted for Al Gore
and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and
our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote
for Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come
true!" -- James Carville