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Art Imitates Life

djseafood — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:29:38 -0800

When art imitates life. The Onion once again.....

Listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar...

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:49:29 -0800

You'd be forgiven for thinking that the iconic American folk song The Wabash Cannonball was written as a tribute to an actual train, but in fact, in an interesting case of life-imitates-art, the actual train name was inspired by the song. The Lake Erie, Wabash, and St. Louis Railroad Company was formed in 1852, but there was no train called the “Cannonball” when the song was first sung late in the 19th century. There have been many, many, many wonderful versions through the years, but I think Roy Acuff pretty much owns it, wouldn't you say? [NOTE: See hoverovers for link descriptions] Scroll down on this Dick Kay and the Demise of the Wabash page and you'll find: "Click here to view streaming video of Dick Kay's Wabash Cannonball piece". It's an NBC news report from 1971, when the Wabash Cannonball was taken out of service. Interesting. I had never heard of him before researching this post, but Matthew Sabatella has a nice version that you can hear on this page, selling his CD. Scroll down to "Wabash Cannonball Listen". This version by a coupla good ole boys with 'lectric guitars playing along to a cheesy backing track probably won't win any awards, but they've thoughtfully included, in the text description of their video, a list of "variations" to be found in the lyrics of different versions. Here's a discography for Blind Willie McTell. You'll note his version of Wabash Cannonball was recorded at his "Last Session", in 1956, and released in 1962. Wabash Railroad Wikipedia page. A stretch of former Wabash Railroad track has been reclaimed as the Wabash Trace Nature Trail, popular, apparently, with bicyclists.

NECs new biometric security cam will guess your age, gender, (and it would be nice if it could size you up according to how you dress).

celerystick — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:46:52 -0800

NEC plans to market a system later this year that can derive someone's gender and age from images captured with a camera "The system compares the photo against a database of several thousand faces to figure gender and age based on such factors as facial shape and wrinkles. " According to Nikkei Weekly 01/28/2008 Edition. Link goes to Ubergizmo. "It's called FieldAnalyst and it's from NEC. The system homes in on faces of people who pass by the video camera. It then rapidly compares the image against samples in a database. It then spits out what it believes is your approximate age is and your gender." .."NEC scientists may next try to add clothing as a characteristic and classify people by whether they wear a suit or a T-shirt." more here

Hello. I must be going.

miss lynnster — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:59:19 -0800

Marx Brothers Filter:
Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932) and Duck Soup (1933). And while the full film itself wasn't on google, here's everything you ever needed to know about A Night at the Opera (1935). Previously.

Brother's Keeper.

jeffmshaw — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:32:15 -0800

Brotherly Love. "When a young Fort Lewis soldier returned from Iraq paralyzed from the upper chest down, it was his teenage brother who assumed the role of roommate and primary caretaker." The Seattle Times tells the story of Brandon and Blaine Powell. Be sure to check out the audio slideshow, which features Brandon speaking over photographer Alan Berner's images.

Larry's Face

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:51:54 -0800

"This is my brother Larry and this is his face. It has served him well for many years. UNTIL NOW."

kcmoryan — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:18:15 -0800

Ignore the fact we fired the last guy who spoke up. Anyone else want to say anything? Aquila head asks for comments, and fires the guy who points out that the $7.6 million severance package given to his brother would have kept 152 employees on the payroll at $50,000 each. (He also copied 1 or 2 thousand of his closest friends.) Who's right here? Would you express yourself freely?

insomnyuk — Thu, 07 Mar 2002 22:47:06 -0800

The diary of Iseema bin Laden, the secret account of Osama's half brother. This link via muslimpundit, which along with the occasional hilarity, includes excellent critiques of Islamism, including one about the fundamentalist disdain for democracy.

holgate — Tue, 29 May 2001 02:48:10 -0800

"Interests - Own navel." (aka "When Web Templates Go Live"> Looks like one of the original participants for Big Brother 2 pulled out at short notice.... (oops, slapped hands, web designers.)