Logoblink.com has a really great collection of US presidential election logos from 1960-2008.

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“Anatomie Gummi Bär” is a wonderful illustration by Jason Freeny detailing the anatomy of a Gummy Bear. Here’s some of Jason’s previous work we have posted.

Jason has a print of “Anatomie Gummi Bär” for sale in his online store.

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illustration by Jason Freeny

Super-Con San Jose comic book convention takes place this Saturday, May 17th and Sunday, May 18th at the San Jose Convention Center. The event features many special guests, including Wil Wheaton, who will be there as part of his 2008 Geek Tour.

b3ta ran an interesting Photoshop contest last year where they challenged people to extend album art beyond their natural borders.

See Also: Money Celebrities & LP Portraits, Creative Image Alignment Memes

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photoshops via maninthespoon, knockear & barryheadwound

Today CBS announced that it plans to aquire CNET for $1.8 Billion, which includes websites like News.com, ZDNet, Download.com and Webware.

Marshall Kirkpatrick has a great write-up on this breaking story on ReadWriteWeb.

image by Andrew Mager

monochrom and The Billboard Liberation Front recently joined forces up to create “The Great Firewall of China” at the Google headquarters in Mountain View as part of monochrom’s Sculpture Mobs project. Boing Boing TV was there with the full report.

Here’s the press release and photos from the installation.

Coincidently, the action took place the same day as Google’s annual shareholders meeting and a news crew from the local ABC affiliate (KGO Channel 7) happened by as the Sculpture Mobs installation was in progress, including it in their report, referring to monochrom and BLF as human rights activists.

photo by Johannes Grenzfurthner

Streeter Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld recently created a series amusing Truth In Website Logos for College Humor.

Mario Amaya created some interesting corporate logo mashups “Just For Fun”.

images via College Humor & Mario Amaya

MoltenSteelMan created “The Walking Beast”, an amazing giant robot spider that walks around on eight legs. Here’s a video of it in action at Burning Man 2007.

The machine is powered by a 454 cubic inch chevy V-8 married to a modified TH400 trans coupled to two klune extreme under drive planetary gear boxes, uses a rockwell 2 1/2 ton military axle to supply power to the leg crank shafts, The final drive ratio is 125:1. The legs are supported on a 4 link system and uses 56 pivot points and 114 bearings. I am currently working on the hydraulics for the elevator. the elevator is used to get passengers to the top of the machine and doubles as a cornering device, it will have a pivot pad on the bottom that will lift one side of the machine to allow it to walk in a circle.

See Also: Mondo Spider, An Amazing 8 Leg Robotic Walking Machine

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Olibith created a really cool music video of The Beatles’ song “I’m Only Sleeping” using machinima from World of Warcraft.

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Don Asmussen, who draws the “Bad Reporter” comic for the San Francisco Chronicle, explains in great detail his process for creating a blog logo for “Bronstein At Large”, the new blog of the Chronicle’s former editor Phil Bronstein. Here’s the final product:

illustration by Don Asmussen

Donald Soffritti has a great series of illustrations showing what some superheroes and supervillains might look like in their old age.

Along these same lines, Spirit Magazine, the inflight magazine for Southwest Airlines, recently published an article on Nickelodeon which includes a wonderful illustration of some popular cartoon and comics characters as senior citizens.

via Neatorama & Cartoon Brew

illustration by Donald Soffritti & unknown

A video of a younger Bill O’Reilly freaking out off camera on Inside Edition in the early 1990’s has been making its way around the internets this week.

Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen had a hilarious tribute to Bill’s outburst.

The Presidential Memorial Commission is a group of San Francisco citizens, including ex-mayoral candidate Chicken John, who are submitting an ordinance initiative for the ballot in the November election in San Francisco to change the name of the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant to “George W Bush Sewage Plant”. Chicken is currently leading a signature drive in order to get the 15,000 signatures of registered voters required for the petition to add this to the ballot.

Here’s what Chicken sent to his mailing list yesterday:

OK. So today you get to live in the City of Art and Innovation. And by being a good citizen of San Francisco, I implore you to take action.

We have a ballot initiative that you will be able to vote on come November 2008.

We have put forth the following question to all San Fraciscans:

“Should the city and county of San Francisco reanme the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant?

If we’re lucky, it’ll be Proposition H.

Go here:

http://presidentialmemorial.wordpress.com/

Presidential Memorial Commission Signature Drive is now in full swing. Like 15,000 signatures are needed to make this happen. That’s 15,000 signatures of San Francisco residents who both live somewhere and are registered to vote AND know the address of where they are registered to vote and can remember how to sign their names because the Election Commission checks each and every signature.

So.

I need all of you (who live somewhere and are registered to vote) to sign. But that’s not enough. I need all of you (that’s ALL of you) to activate. I need a bunch of you to commit to collecting 50 signatures. It’s easy. In the next month you get 50 people you know to sign a ballot initiative form that takes 20 seconds. You know 50 people. Easy. Your work, your roomates, that party you’re going to… in no time at all you’ll be a functioning citizen of the City of Art and Innovation.

Write me an email, I’ll mail you a canvassers button and email you the PDF forms. Easy. But ya hafta do it.

After running for mayor, I can assure you this is a much better way to spend your time activating to local politics. And since we are not collecting a dime, the ethics commission can’t toy with us.

Just write me an email and tell me you wanna help get some signatures together. We’ve got like 1,200 so far. But likely 50% of them will be rejected.

This from the accurate and astute Fox News Network:

Virginia-born activist and ordained minister John Rinaldi, a co-sponsor of the petition who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year under his nickname “Chicken John,” said the initiative would turn “every toilet in San Francisco into basically a shrine for George W. Bush and all his great achievements in his eight years as our commander in chief.”

Rinaldi — flush with pride about the idea — said renaming the plant is “the highest honor available to us.”

May the shitstorm begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

chicken

Chicken John
Showman
San Francisco, California
chickenjohn AT chickenjohn DOT com

More Coverage:

- Fox News
- Jackson West
- Curbed SF
- Huffington Post
- SFist

image via Jackson West

ReadAir is a really nice Google Reader desktop client for both Mac and Windows built on Adobe Air. Here’s more on ReadAir from dailyApps and Download Squad.

“Jeopardy 1999″, a Saturday Night Live sketch from 1979.

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