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Walt Disney: Urban legends
A number of rumors and urban legends have been attributed to Walt Disney, most of which are presumed to be untrue
http://www.snopes.com/disney/waltdisn/walt.asp. Among these are the following:* "Disney had his body frozen and became a cryonics patient after his death; it is stored under Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disneyland." Disney was in fact cremated, and his remains lie in a family crypt at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
http://www.snopes.com/disney/waltdisn/frozen.htm*
"When Walt Disney was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Johnson at a White House ceremony in 1964, he wore a 'Goldwater' pin on his lapel." http://www.snopes.com/disney/waltdisn/freedom.htm*
"Walt Disney disallowed the American flag to be lowered at Disneyland after President Kennedy's assassination." Disney was busy at the time, scouting locations for what would be Walt Disney World, so such micro-management is unlikely.*
"Disney's face appears on a bust in the Haunted Mansion." The bust of "Uncle Theodore" is actually of voice actor Thurl Ravenscroft.*
"Walt Disney was an illegitimate child, born out of wedlock to a woman from a town near Almeria in southern Spain and adopted by Flora and Elias Disney." There is no evidence to support such a claim.*
"Walt Disney received a dishonorable discharge from the military during World War I." In actuality, Disney served for the Red Cross during the end of WWI.* It is rumoured that Disney's ghost can be seen in many associated buildings, such as the Disney Gallery at New Orleans Square in Disneyland, and in the old Sunkist bar also at Disneyland.
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LiteratureHaunted Mansion 40th birthday to be celebrated with original Shag art
How sez, "California hipster artist Shag has created 13 new art pieces commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion attraction. I've collected all the details (and art) known to date about the upcoming event in August of 2009 in one post." What's not to like? Shag's art + the best ride Disney's Imagineers ever built = sheer heaven! Details are still a little sketchy (pardon the pun) at this time, but it appears that a range of merchandise will be created based on the art: at the very least, Shag will be signing prints on Sunday, August 9th at the park. Buyers, however, will get the first opportunity to buy the prints at a cocktail party the evening of the 8th where Shag will be the guest of honor. Here?s hoping that they hold the event in the Mansion itself ? Walt Disney World has done dinners in the stretch rooms in the past ? what a blast it would be to party where ?candle lights flicker where the air is deathly still.? Shag Haunted Mansion art event (Thanks, How!)...
Published: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:39:42 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the articlePuzzlesWalt Disney World joins the Sudoku craze!!
"The latest Japanese import isn't another gas-pinching compact, but rather a numerical logic puzzle that resembles a crossword square.
Suddenly, it's hip to be square (again).
The Sudoku craze -- kickstarted by a retired Hong Kong judge named Wayne Gould -- has earned bows in Japan, made Brits go crumpets, and sent newspapers throughout Europe into a tizzy to publish the puzzles in their pages."
Well at least Orlando does....
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Published: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:39:00 GMT - Source: Orlandosentinel.Com - Read the articleLiteratureBoing Boing's Holiday Gift Guide part five: Nonfiction
Here's part five of the Boing Boing Holiday Gift Guide, a roundup of the bestselling items from this year's Boing Boing reviews. Today's installment is nonfiction books. Don't miss the rest of the posts: kids' stuff, fiction, gadgets and comics. Tomorrow I'll wrap it up with DVDs and CDs. Good Calories, Bad Calories (Gary Taubes) Gary Taubes, whose NYT article on Atkins rekindled the low-carb eating movement, sums up his reserarch on low-carb eating Original Boing Boing post Transit Maps of the World (Mark Ovenden) Sheer subway-porn Original Boing Boing post Magic and Showmanship: A Handbook for Conjurers (Henning Nelm) Classic book about conjuring has many lessons for writers Original Boing Boing post Laika (Nick Abadzis) Graphic novel tells the sweet and sad story of the first space-dog Original Boing Boing post Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs (Laura Lindgren) Haunting book of Victorian pathological curiosities Original Boing Boing post Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World (David Koenig) The secret history of Walt Disney World Original Boing Boing post In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Michael Pollan) Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Original Boing Boing post Clear and to the Point: 8 Psychological Principles for Compelling PowerPoint Presentations (Stephen M. Kosslyn) Cognitive science vs. crappy PowerPoint slides Original Boing Boing post Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Clay Shirky) Clay Shirky's masterpiece Original Boing Boing post The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism (Matt Mason) To get rich off pirates, copy them Original Boing Boing post Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Suketu Mehta) Exhausting and beautiful love-note to Mumbai Original Boing Boing post Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan (Lisa Katayama) Make Magazine meets Hints From Heloise by way of postwar Japan Original Boing Boing post China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America (James Kynge) Book captures the grand sweep of changes in the most populous nation on Earth Original Boing Boing post Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy (Abby Banks, Timothy Findlen, Thurston Moore) Communal homes of the anarcho-syndicalist lifestyle Original Boing Boing post The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need (Daniel H. Pink) Optimistic and iconoclastic career guide in manga form Original Boing Boing post Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (DJ Spooky) Essays on the future of music edited by DJ Spooky Original Boing Boing post Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights (Bill Ivey) How the DMCA, Clear Channel and copyright extension are killing culture Original Boing Boing post The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It (Jonathan Zittrain) How to save the Internet from the Internet Original Boing Boing post The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey (Emmanuel Goldstein) Best of 2600 Magazine anthology Original Boing Boing post A People's History of American Empire (Howard Zinn) Fantastic comic-book adaptation of Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States Original Boing Boing post Secrets of the Mouse: An Unofficial Behind-the-Scenes Guide to Disneyland Park (Alan Joyce) Insider Disneyland guide Original Boing Boing post Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (John Medina) Oliver Sacks meets GETTING THINGS DONE Original Boing Boing post My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us (Jessica Mills) Kick-ass punk-parenting book Original Boing Boing post True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society (Farhad Manjoo) The science, history and economics of self-deception Original Boing Boing post The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space: 42 Questions (and Answers) About Life, the Universe, and Everything (Jim Lebans) Bite-sized answers to the massive questions of inquisitive astronomical ponderers Original Boing Boing post Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future (Cory Doctorow) Collection of my infamous articles, essays, and polemics. championing free speech and universal access to information Original Boing Boing post The Baby Sleep Solution: A Proven Program to Teach Your Baby to Sleep Twelve Hours a Night (Suzy Giordano) The best parenting book I've read Original Boing Boing post How Children Learn (John Holt) Cllassic of human, kid-centered learning Original Boing Boing post The Hungry Scientist Handbook: Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, Tinkerers, and Foodies (Patrick Buckley, Lily Binns) Nerdy cookbook for kitchen hackers Original Boing Boing post Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin (Kenny Shopsin, Carolynn Carreno) Memoir and cookbook from Shopsin's, the best, most eclectic eatery in Greenwich Village Original Boing Boing post How Children Fail (John Holt) Angry lessons from failures to teach Original Boing Boing post Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope (Emmanuel Guibert) Extraordinary graphic novel memoir of a US GI who arrived in Europe at the end of WWII and stayed Original Boing Boing post Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (Michael Lewis) A timely moment to revisit 20-year-old memoir of the rise and fall of a financial bubble Original Boing Boing post The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation (Jonathan Hennessey) US Constitution in graphic novel form Original Boing Boing post Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan (Chip Kidd) The lost Japanese Batman comics of 1966 Original Boing Boing post Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Leslie T. Chang) Amazing memoir by American-born Chinese journalist Original Boing Boing post Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain (Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins) The "Understanding Comics" of copyright, in a new edition Original Boing Boing post The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx (Stefan Kanfer) A book of fine grouchovian material that contains at least five guaranteed laughs on every page Original Boing Boing post Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science (John Grant) The history, cause, effect and state of bad science Original Boing Boing post...
Published: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:41:46 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the article
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