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44 US Presidents - George Washington to Barack Obama
Theo Spark — 44 US Presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama morphed to the music Boléro by Ravel. H/T Old Dude

Washington to Obama, morphed
The Swamp — by Frank James Someone took the time to morph all the faces of the 43 presidents and the one president-elect, into each other. It's interesting because it graphically makes a point made so often since Election Day and that will likely be made for a long time going forward, that President-elect Barack Obama gives the presidency a strikingly new and different look. Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" as a soundtrack wouldn't have been my choice. A better choice might have been a loop of the musical introduction of Aaron Copeland's "A Lincoln Portrait."

44 Presidents in 4 minutes
Crooks and Liars — This is pretty cool. Someone took the time to time to make this video in which the faces of all 44 Presidents are morphed into each other. My, how far we've come.

The Ties that Bind
The Corner on National Review Online — Friday, January 02, 2009 [image] The Ties that Bind [ Jonah Goldberg ] Rick - That is great. For those who want to watch the video here, here ya go: One interesting thing, to me at least, is how recent the advent of the standard necktie is. While it's hard to tell for sure when the presidents started wearing them in their portraits (what is Harrison wearing, for instance?), the first easily recognized modern necktie doesn't show up until Teddy Roosevelt. After that, it's pretty much standard. It's hard to imagine that we'll change that fashion any time soon. 01/02 11:22 AM

Morphing 44 presidential faces from Washington to Obama
Top of the Ticket — Much will be written about next week's historic inauguration of the country's first African American president. And we'll be doing our fair share here for sure. But if a picture is worth 1,000 words -- and we tend to think it's more like 735 to 738 words --  then here's 44,000 words' worth of history in about 238 seconds. Watch the faces of all of this nation's presidents morph into each other from No. 1 GW, who owned slaves, to No. 44, who doesn't. It provides a soothing, even inspiring sense of history. Along the way you'll see fashions change. It wasn't until president No. 6 that we ...

An inaugural morph set to the tune of "Bolero"
The Monkey Cage — [Hat tip to Marc Stern]

C-SPAN ranks presidents: Abe still on top, new shocker at the bottom
Top of the Ticket — Today is President's Day, that sacred holiday on the United States calendar devoted to honoring the births of the two most important presidents in the nation's history by selling bed linens and used automobiles at discount prices. There was a time in not-too-distant American history when the country could afford to give President Washington and President Lincoln each their own holiday -- Feb. 12 for Abe and Feb. 22 for GW. But those fat days are gone. However today, as an added bonus, whether you buy new sheets or not, we're throwing in publication of the intriguing results from C-SPAN's latest ranking of past chief executives ...