Meet Mr. Toilet

For those without access to a simple toilet, poop can be poison. Businessman-turned-sanitation-superhero Jack Sim fights this oft-neglected crisis affecting 2.6 billion people…

It’s amazing how we take modern plumbing for granted and how something as normal as eliminated our waste is so different in other parts of the world, and a major health problem.

A few non-offensive s-bombs are thrown in.

Meet Mr. Toilet | Jessica Yu from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.

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Digital Pop-Up Book

Between Page and Screen contains no text, only stark black-and-white geometric shapes and a web address leading to this site, where the reader follows instructions to display the book on his or her webcam. Our software detects the square markers in the book and displays corresponding word animations mapped to the surface of the page. Because the animations move with the book, they appear to inhabit “real” three-dimensional space—a kind of digital pop-up book.

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Bag of Randomness

  • This probably deserves its own post, but I think of the modern era, no president has been as disrespected as President Obama in terms of how he is treated by other politicians.  I know presidents of both parties have taken a lot of heat from the general public, but I think for the most part, presidents have been respected by other politicians because they have respect for the actual office.  Now before you get all riled up, can you think of another president been as disrespected by other elected officials like our current president?  Not only while speaking at a joint session of Congress he was interrupted by a congressman yelling at him for being a liar, have a finger pointed at his face on a tarmac by a Governor, but he’s also had to defend his citizenship by numerous elected officials.  Yeah, politicians have thick skin and if they can’t take the heat they have to get out of the kitchen, but I was so moved by Bob Schieffer’s words that I thought I’d start Bag of Randomness off with what he had to say, which you can find at the 40-second mark.
  • I will give Obama credit, he’s never complained about any of the examples I stated above with the possible exception of his citizenship being taken in to question because of how it was distracting from more important issues.
  • Gov Jan Brewer’s book last week was ranked 311,472  in terms of sales on Amazon.com, after this incident, he book climbed to 14 as of this posting.  That’s a 22,000,000% increase and I’m sure some sort of record.
  • In keeping things a little political but moving on to calmer waters, John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States.  He was born in 1790 and took office in 1841, and two of his grandchildren are still alive!
  • Matthew Broderick is going to reprise his role as Ferris Bueller for a Super Bowl commercial.  Here’s a preview.
  • Suzy Kolber finally addresses the Namath issue.  Many local folks would be surprised to know that she used to be part of Special Edition with Jerry Jones that other than Jones’ ego is still airing.
  • Lawrence Taylor recently had something to add about ending Joe Thiesmann’s career, “Hey, listen, I did him a favor, he was on his way out. I’m serious, I gave him a happy accident.”
  • That’s a heck of a way to peel a potato.
  • Was anyone really surprised to find out that a game show host was drunk on the job?  I mean, really, was that sooo shocking?  Has anyone seen any Family Feud episodes with Richard Dawson?
  • Halfsies is a new start up in Austin and NYC that is trying to help people eat less at restaurants while helping to feed the hungry and decrease the amount of food that gets thrown out.  Basically, you pay full price for a half meal, so you eat less and the money goes to feed the hungry.
  • Tempting picture of the day – Hockey Ear Injury [Washington Post]
  • If you have ever been closely involved with a pregnancy, you are familiar with a book called What to Expect When You are Expecting.  A comedy based on the book will soon hit the big screen and there are some funny movie posters that showcase the film’s stars, such as Cameron Diaz, Elizabeth Banks, Brooklyn Decker
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