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Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse!

by John P.

Today is Mickey Mouse’s birthday, or perhaps I should say the anniversary of the day Mickey was introduced to the world as Disney’s first synchronized sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie, which premiered at the Colony Theater in New York City in 1928. This is the day that Walt Disney recognizes as Mickey’s official anniversary at least.

Mickey actually first appeared six months prior in unofficial screenings of Plane Crazy on May 15th and The Gallopin’ Gaucho on August 2nd. After Steamboat Willie, soundtracks were added to Gaucho and Crazy, and they were released on December 30, 1928 and March 17, 1929, respectively.
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A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything Flipbook Animation

May 11, 2010
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This is a very cool little video animation that someone created. I can’t imagine how long it took to draw every page of this flipbook, but if you ask me without YouTube it wouldn’t have been worth it! Actually I can imagine what it took because the author said… It’s something like 2100 pages long, [...]

A Video History of the Internet

November 17, 2009

I’ve seen a few decent writeups on the History of the Internet, but this short video crams a working history into about 8 minutes that anyone can follow. Now, it will start using some funky technical terms like TCP and IP, but they introduce it in such a way that I think almost anyone can [...]

The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Reconstructed

February 1, 2009

Six years ago, at exactly this moment, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated above the skys south of Dallas, TX in a catastrophe that shocked the world. I think it’s appropriate that we honor the memory of those fallen astronauts who gave their lives in the quest to expand human knowledge. Chris Valentines produced the following [...]

Castro’s Cuba Leaves Nothing to Be Admired

January 6, 2009
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I have a very close friend (who shall go unnammed) that seems to admire Fidel Castro. Well my friend, I came across this post at IBD editorials about Cuba’s 50 years of failure, and I just had to share it! Spare us the fireworks and media-parroted claims of Fidel Castro’s dictatorship bringing universal health care [...]

A Visit to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ Abandoned Vaults

January 5, 2009

Here is a special treat for you guys. Last week I got the opportunity to take Cali and Neal from GeekBrief.TV to visit the old Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Dallas, they brought their cameras so everyone could tag along. Why were we there, you may ask? Well, the Layered Tech datacenter in Dallas is [...]

The US Declaration of Independence

September 20, 2008

I was recently reminded of just how cool the U.S. Declaration of Independence was, and how it united the citizens of the original 13 colonies in the common goal of establishing freedom and abolishing the reign of a tyrannical dictator. Since both of the major political parties are currently advocating “change”, it is apparent that [...]

19 by Paul Hardcastle

August 28, 2008

[The average U.S. serviceman in the Vietnam War was supposedly twenty-two years old, and not nineteen as is often believed, particularly given the popularity of a pop song called 19 by Paul Hardcastle. I came across this song the other day, and it reminded me of just how cool it is all over again, so [...]

Frank Zappa Defends Free Speech on Crossfire

June 16, 2008

Here is a fascinating debate on Crossfire from 22 years ago in which some tool (John Laughlin) from the Washington Post was repeatedly insulting Frank Zappa (you know he’s half Greek, right?) and arguing for censorship of freedom of speech. What I find most interesting is that Frank remained very calm and collected despite the [...]

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