Like abbot and costello, round and round…

This Australian politician and reporter cant seem to get out of their conversational loops. 2 min. Hilarious.

Immigrants Can Do Anything!

No, not quite like Legolas…

“When it comes to international policy, there is no difference between Hillary Clinton and George Bush. That is a fact.”

I read a great piece here by Town Called Dobson which discussed that for quite a few democrats, Kucinich would be the preferred president, but no one thinks he could win against the likes of Fred Thompson (*I* think he’s gonna be the republican nominee for pres.). As a takeoff of something in that article, stop fearing the Kucinich revolution, we must stop the American Empire from engulfing any more countries. If you’d like to help the man keep speaking out, donate what you can here…

http://www.dennis4president.com/home/

And I do believe he can do it.. I really believe enough people can come around and stop seeing a weird little elf-land creature, and listen to what the little elf has to say… Go Kucinich!

360° Light Field Display…

From the Graphics Lab @ USC Institute for Creative Technologies

We describe a set of rendering techniques for an autostereoscopic light field display able to present interactive 3D graphics to multiple simultaneous viewers 360 degrees around the display. The display consists of a high-speed video projector, a spinning mirror covered by a holographic diffuser, and FPGA circuitry to decode specially rendered DVI video signals. The display uses a standard programmable graphics card to render over 5,000 images per second of interactive 3D graphics, projecting 360-degree views with 1.25 degree separation up to 20 updates per second. We describe the system’s projection geometry and its calibration process, and we present a multiple-center-of-projection rendering technique for creating perspective-correct images from arbitrary viewpoints around the display. Our projection technique allows correct vertical perspective and parallax to be rendered for any height and distance when these parameters are known, and we demonstrate this effect with interactive raster graphics using a tracking system to measure the viewer’s height and distance. We further apply our projection technique to the display of photographed light fields with accurate horizontal and vertical parallax. We conclude with a discussion of the display’s visual accommodation performance and discuss techniques for displaying color imagery.

That’s way too cool…

Well, it’s fucking funny to me…

Does she do herself justice here? The answer is no, none the less, let’s give her a chance to talk her way out of one of my favorites videos of the past few months…

Well, let’s see here… The chiron underneath her said “Beauty Teen Defends Map Answer”… She wasn’t really defending the answer, she was defending the fact that she didn’t give an answer… right? Her defense, boiled down, is…

I didn’t understand the question…

Once again, the question was:

“Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?”

Tough, I know… When she answered on the Today Show, she said,

“Well, personally, my friends and I, we know exactly where the United States is on our map… If the statistics are correct, I believe that there should be more emphasis on geography in our education, so people will learn how to read maps better.”

This, I assume, is her cop out as to why she was so flabbergasted on national TV (the “my friends and I” part). I have a question to put forth..

How long did the answer she gives here take her (and I would assume her PR people) to concoct and for her to memorize?

I still say we should help, such as, like, the Iraq and the Asian countries so we can build up our future. Thank you. ::wide, stupid smile::

For all you R.S. fans out there…

I have some more of this kind of stuff, but I love alternate versions of songs, and this is an amazing alternate “Honky Tonk Woman”… with the rare “Sailors in Paris” verse, and without Mick Taylor’s overdubs… Remastered by Mickboy (if you don’t know who that is, check any of his work out… The man has an amazing talent/ear for remastering, to say the least..) Anyways, enjoy…

Dawn of the Distended

Last Saturday, I made my annual trip to the Minnesota State Fair. Like all years, the Fair provided a heady mix of good natured fun, a forboding sense of fear and disgust, and surprising self-revelations about an apparently latent gambling addiction. When you’re facing the prospect of winning a framed Jesus picture, what’s another twenty dollars in the carney’s pocket?

The “forboding sense of fear and disgust” is immediately recognizable to any person who has been to the Minnesota State Fair. Rest assured, dear reader, that if you are not able to make the trip before Labor Day, the state’s obese population did not decide to skip out on the festivities this year. On the contrary, their population continues to…expand.

Yes, like the exposed festering flesh of recent roadkill, your overpowering sense of curiosity will not allow you to look away from the roving packs of fatties. Even if you could somehow pretend to not be fascinated by them, their mammoth bulk makes it nearly impossible to see anything else. This especially becomes a problem when you are trying to look at the animals, or when you notice an engorged stomach lazily swaying in the breeze directly above your head, after it’s too late to get off the ride.

How bad have things become? The rotundos are no longer ashamed of their overconsumption. I saw plenty of shirts with quips like: “I’m not too fat–you’re too thin,” and “Yeah, and my dick is really big too.” They are becoming bolder and more plentiful; the more they consume, the hungrier they become, and they are no longer confining themselves to food and drink. They are starting to salivate over material goods.

For example: The Fair provides motorized carts for disabled and elderly fairgoers, who cannot maintain the considerable levels of energy it requires to navigate through the crowds of people. However, these carts are now monopolized by the very fattest of the fat, who use the carts to jettison among their most prized food vendors, employing the convenient mounted baskets to stock up on deep-fried candy bars, cheese curds, and buckets of Sweet Martha cookies. Meanwhile, the state’s disabled population is forced to fend for themselves. I wonder how many disabled citizens will die this year after being mowed down by some leviathan on a scooter in search of a corn dog?

This is really serious. They may soon commandeer a grocery store and secede from the country. Then, they will slowly assimilate surrounding areas with their bulk, like a malignant tumor, and float across the world’s oceans until the entire earth becomes a fatocracy.

Yesterday, I noticed a story on the AP Wire that said America’s obesity rate is rising. “Interesting,” I thought to myself, “After my experience over the weekend, I bet that Minnesota is pretty high up there.”

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBESITY_RANKINGS?SITE=NJHAC&SECTION=HOME

Then I read this:

Meanwhile, Minnesotans led the way when it came to exercise. An estimated 15.4 percent of the state’s residents did not engage an any physical exercise - the best rate in the nation. Still, the state ranked 28th overall when it came to the percentage of obese adults.

Twenty eighth out of fifty?! Those lumbering idiots I saw at the State Fair are average Americans.

It is much worse than I thought. They number thirty percent of the total population in the deep south. It is only a matter of time before they waddle up towards the Mason-Dixon line, grasp the flabby forearms of their northern brethren, and slowly infiltrate the government.