Oh my god, I have just discovered the St Andrews Face Transformer! Upload a picture of yourself and it approximates what you would look like with a different gender, race, or age!
Least impressive is me as an old woman:
Kinda interesting is me as a cavewoman:
But really amazing is me as a male. This pretty much looks exactly like my dad in college (except he didn’t wear chokers or glasses):
Now I’m looking around for an old picture of him for comparison…
Photo: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s mugshot from his arrest during the Montgomery bus boycott. Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department, Alabama, 1956. (PRNewsFoto/Eastern State Penitentiary)
I was disgusted to learn that the web site martinlutherking-dot-org is an effort to discredit the man who tried to so hard to heal this nation’s sick, racist soul. Fortunately, bloggers are fighting back! To participate in this effort to Google bomb Dr. King back to reality just copy the text suggested here, and feel free to click on the informative links below as I do the same.
Thanks to Chris Lackey for posting Dr. King’s mugshot, and reminding us of the real, radical leader who was treated like a criminal by US government for protesting its racist policies. One of my favorites of his writing is the Letter from Birmingham Jail in which he explained to a group of well-meaning white religious leaders why we can’t wait. This is the man I will remember on Monday.
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Thanks to Greensboro blogger Sean Coon for the heads up about this.
Last meal at the original Pepper’s location. They’re moving to a bigger space down the block.
It’s time for the next big peace march in DC on January 27. With the Democrats now in power, it seems more important than ever to keep this issue on the front burner.
3,000 Americans dead and 22,000 wounded so far in Iraq. (NYTimes) How is it that coverage of this doesn’t even mention the (at least) 52,000 Iraqis killed? (Iraq Body Count) Grrr.
Anyway, my computer was the main jukebox for our annual new years beach trip, so my last.fm charts illustrate our soundtrack:
Just posted an album of photos on Flickr from our trip to visit my family in Austin. We had a great time. Austin is a really lovely city, although it was unseasonably cold.
Here are some highlights…
Grandma Vickie making latkes for Hanukkah
Continue reading “The Rakoffs do Austin”
Brian and I recorded a short video response to John Edwards’ YouTube campaign announcement. It was super-easy to do right from the web camera built into my laptop. Now that I am no longer a video blogging virgin, perhaps I’ll try it again some time.
Here’s one of my recent favorite John Edwards quotations (from his video blog entry “The Plane Truth“):
I’ve come to the personal conclusion that I actually want the country to see who I am, who I really am. But I don’t know what the result of that will be. But for me personally, I’d rather be successful or unsuccessful based on who I really am, not based on some plastic Ken doll that you put up in front of audiences.
If he’s serious about being true to himself before being true to the TV cameras, well, my boots will be a little lighter, but more importantly I could really feel good about working for that campaign.
Wow. If I didn’t have a standing meeting on Tuesdays, I would be seriously tempted to take this class. Tim Tyson is one of the most passionate and essential historians of race relations in the South, and we are blessed to have him with us here in North Carolina.
THE SOUTH IN BLACK AND WHITE
Southern History, Culture, and Politics in the 20th CenturyA Course for NCCU, DUKE, UNC Students
& the GENERAL PUBLICJanuary 16 – April 24, 2007
Tuesdays 7:00 – 9:30 PMLOCATION: Hayti Heritage Center
Led by North Carolina’s own TIM TYSON (Blood Done Sign My Name), senior scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies, the course will furnish a wide front porch on Southern history. Weekly lecture, interviews, live music, poetry, dramatic performances, film clips, and opportunities for discussion.
– Duke Center for Documentary Studies: The South in Black and White
One of the many reasons that it’s so smart for the Edwards campaign to utilize existing social networking web sites is that they can all collectively handle the load that his personal web site apparently cannot.
The campaign already has groups on MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube as well as his own One Corps site. Which is good because his own blog is not even functioning right now:
After the jump is his campaign announcement on YouTube:
Continue reading “Sharing the burden”
I fully understand why JohnEdwards.com is not exactly the most responsive web site at this moment. 😉 But I am a bit concerned about his advertised “live blogging at 11 am CST” (in 2 minutes) when I see this message:
Please stand by…
The One America Committee Blog is down momentarily for a code upgrade. We will be back up in just a few minutes. Thank you for your patience.
By the way, I’ve joined “One Corps.”