USC vs. UCLA
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Hello USC Trojans and fans:

AK and I visited the newly renovated and revitalized Griffith Observatory last week, the opening weekend. Hopefully more photos will be forthcoming, in addition to a review.
In other news, I just signed up with Zooomr, a photosharing site much like Flickr and a Flickr competitor. All you bloggers out there can sign up for a free Pro account, with 4gb of storage, simply by posting a photo hosted on Zooomr on your blog. Cool stuff!
BTW, they don’t ask you to post anything on your blog about Zooomr, aside from the photo as you see it above.
Here’s an amazing time lapse video of familiar locations in Los Angeles and San Francisco, spliced together from photographs taken by a Canon 20D. Awesome stuff. Some screenshots:

The photographer/creator’s site crashed as a result of the digg effect, so look through this page to find download links for the original video. Make sure to download the high-def, 780p version.
For those who haven’t already heard, Ann Coulter appeared on The Big Idea With Donny Deutsch the other day, and said that Bill Clinton is gay. Wonkette has a transcript of the interview, and here’s an excerpt of that:
Ms. COULTER: I think that sort of rampant promiscuity does show some level of latent homosexuality.
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Ms. COULTER: No. I think anyone with that level of promiscuity where, you know, you — I mean, he didn’t know Monica’s name until their sixth sexual encounter. There is something that is — that is of the bathhouse about that.DEUTSCH: But what is the homosexual — that’s — you could say somebody who maybe doesn’t celebrate women the way he should or just is that he’s a hound dog?
Ms. COULTER: No. It’s just random, is this obsession with his…
DEUTSCH: But where’s the — but where’s the homosexual part of that? I’m — once again, I’m speechless here.
Ms. COULTER: It’s reminiscent of a bathhouse. It’s just this obsession with your own — with your own essence.
DEUTSCH: But why is that homosexual? You could say narcissistic.
Ms. COULTER: Right.
DEUTSCH: You could say nymphomaniac.
Ms. COULTER: Well, there is something narcissistic about homosexuality. Right? Because you’re in love with someone who looks like you. I’m not breaking new territory here, why are you looking at me like that?
This is a fairly moronic and absurd statement. In response, Clinton released a response on Letterman’s show. Here’s the video
Dr. Dino has been arrested for tax evasion. (warning: link potentially NSFW; it will direct you to a Christian website)
Aside from the fact that this story is about a man who calls himself Dr. Dino, and this is The Dinoblog, this story is also interesting because:
“The debtor apparently maintains that as a minister of God, everything he owns belongs to God and he is not subject to paying taxes to the United States on money he receives for doing God’s work,” U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Lewis Killian Jr. wrote when he dismissed a claim from Hovind in 1996.
Hovind, an avowed creationist, has widely publicized his “standing offer” to pay $250,000 to anyone who can provide scientific evidence of evolution.
“No one has ever observed a dog produce a non-dog,” Hovind once wrote in reply to a New York Times article.
Sorry Dr. Dino, but not even you can escape the wrath of the Internal Revenue Service. They want their taxes, and God can’t protect you.
And as an aside, wtf is up with that last statement? No one has ever observed a dog produce a non-dog? I’ll acknowledge that his words are probably taken out of context, but what does that mean? How does it help his creationist view? Has anyone ever observed a human being produce a non-human being?
Anil Dash has compiled the best animated gifs to date and spliced them together into one amusing video clip.