Links: Ancient animation, New Orleans, Leadership

[infrogmation]

Some stuff on the web I found of interest:

5,200 year old potters wheel zoetrope animation


Harry Shearer: The Pulitzer for Getting Katrina Right is Yet to be Awarded

New edition of Frommer's Guide on New Orleans

Driftglass on the Democratic primary fight excerpt:
"God knows after eight years of Dubya and five years of Iraq no one should have to explain this to Senator Clinton, but the first test of real leadership is not just how well you fight the necessary and unavoidable battles, but how well you keep us the Hell out of stupid, unnecessary conflicts in the first place ... how much clearer does it have to be that the worst possible trait to have in a leader is a willingness – an eagerness! -- to fudge facts, gin up divisive brawls out of thin air and lob bombs to advance their personal political agendas and fortunes."

Comments

[wrayb.livejournal.com]

If you would do a link summary like this every day I could be lazy and just read only your journal.

cheers mate.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Are there any real Democrats that are pro-Hillary? I wonder if they're all just Republicans trying to spoil the ticket at this point. I'm not getting many real pro-Hillary stories on teh intarweb.

To be fair, the only pro-Obama stories I've read were a link to a speech he gave about why religion's role in government should be limited, at least to the point where you need a non-religious justification for writing a law... and, of course, xkcd's endorsement. I've seen nothing pro-Hillary, just anti-other people.

That leaping ibex

[notr.livejournal.com]

caused consternation when the animation was first published online back in 2004 (http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1249.html), because it's obviously mocked-up--the 5 images of the ibex cut and pasted in 9 positions on a single background. So it's nice to see a picture of the actual sequence of images after all this time:

Since the ends of what's shown don't line up, I kind of wonder how the last image on the right really fits in the sequence.