Via Geoviki: Paste Magazine has coded up an Obamiconator that allows users to upload images and text to a whatsit that then reds and blues it into the "style inspired by Shepard Fairey's iconic poster."

It's cute and fascinating as a running commentary on both graphic and cultural vocabularies.

(Btw, I haven't been through all 6000+ pages of the gallery -- if anyone spies a UU chalice in the lot, please let me know its permalink? I'd upload one myself, but this is so not the morning for me to contend with upgrading Flash on my laptop...)

Worked a bit on one of my own poster plans yesterday:

From misc

Speaking of wrangling with texts and settings, I did some rooting around for info on musical versions of Rabbi Tarfon's maxim (prompted-inspired by Dichroic), and came across this post by someone who also doesn't always find herself in harmony...

Did a five-hour stint at the Talking Library yesterday. It was an interesting shift: both the Tennessean shift captain and I were coping with head- and chest-crud, our co-reader didn't show up, and the speaker in the sound booth wasn't working, so it was a more on-our-toes (and frequent trips outside to clear out said crud) read for us than usual, but it went well. It's sometimes a challenge for me to get through "Dear Abby" without breaking into giggles, but the column was actually sedate yesterday (closing with a sweet letter from a Grace Cathedral canon on Christmas trees), and I also got to read the editorial on making MLK Day a day to serve.

And the timing for the three episodes I recorded of The Red Necklace was coincidentally appropriate as well, with its characters arguing over equality for all regardless of birth...

And magic and vision (also major themes in the book) were on my mind, and a friend had a birthday, so I wrote a poem.