schachterrific!

Yep, the Daily New is having a contest to see who can come up with the best flyover photoshopped image of Air Force One, a really nice way to bring home the point of how unnecessary the flyover actually was. You can find it here.

My favorite?

Hudson River Emergency Landing

Jonathan Jarvis is a designer who works for UNICEF. While there, he worked on finessing motion diagrams as a method of interpretation of complex issues.

Here is his take on the global credit crisis.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

A ten year study of 100,000 galaxies now offers compelling proof for the existence of ‘dark matter’. What’s more,

Saying that “the universe we see is really quite structured,” one of the lead researchers explained that the 10-year “census” of galaxies near our own Milky Way offers powerful evidence that this invisible dark matter “seems to hold the galaxies together.”

Stuff like this always makes me wonder if we are all part of something much larger, much grander than our puny little world  and our ant-like existence. Are super-novas an example of a galactic ‘viral’ attack? Are black holes the ‘tumor’ of galaxies? Or is it all much bigger even than that?

Read the details here. Better yet, here.

After years bouncing around Hollywood, “Atlas Shrugged” may yet see the light of the silver screen…

Hollywood could soon be going Objectivist.

After decades in development hell, Ayn Rand’s capitalism-minded “Atlas Shrugged” is taking new steps toward the big screen — with one of the film world’s most prominent money men potentially at its center.

Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media is circling the Baldwin Entertainment project and could come aboard to finance with Lionsgate, which got involved several years ago.

Rand’s popular but polarizing book — it’s derided by many literary critics but has a huge public following — tells the story of Dagny Taggart, a railroad executive trying to keep her corporation competitive in the face of what she perceives as a lack of innovation and individual responsibility.

Read the rest at Risky Biz.

It’s finally happened. One of my friends actually had to hang up on me in order to respond to a Tweet. Time to redefine the term “friend”….

Actor and longtime political activist Ron Silver died this morning, succumbing to a long battle with cancer, friends of the liberal Democrat-turned-GOP stalwart told The Post.

Another great NY actor, and a fellow alumnus of Stuy High, Silver was an independent thinker who was not afraid to change his political rockbed when it no longer bore any resemblance to reality. We’ve lost another great one.

This award winning film from 2006 should be mandatory viewing for EVERYONE.