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So, Jess was bugging me to get our “Wedding Video” done and as much fun as that would have been, I really didn’t want to. So, after her nagging and vetoing all of my music/picture choices, I decided to just go all out (or, as all out as I was willing to go in 45 minutes with little effort).

Long story short, she’s now making the video, but she decided to upload the movie I made to YouTube, so enjoy:

Tada!

Don’t you hate when you design something, only to find it stolen and sold by another company? Check out these two images:

The one on the left is a shirt by All Saints Apparel. The one on the right is a Valentine card by Mitch. Totally identical. It seems someone liked the design so much they snagged it and turned it into a shirt. Here is the original post about it at 4 color rebellion:

Zounds!

Posh London retailer All Saints Apparel plagiarized a shirt design from the gaming site 4 color rebellion. The site originally unveiled the ‘You Complete Me’ tetris-heart figure for Valentine’s Day in 2006. Designer Mitch was surprised to find that All Saints had plastered the exact same design on a shirt selling for £40—that’s like, $90! Mitch asked All Saints for an explanation, which was enough to prompt a decent resolution.

Well, luckily it looks like this has come to a happy ending. According to this post on the consumerist all is well:

You know, I didn’t expect it to happen, but things actually did end up with (somewhat of) a happy ending. I managed to get back in touch with the head of Manches, the guys that do administrative or production or whatever for All Saints, and we managed to work out a settlement.

Because they deal with plagiarism of their stuff a lot, they were apparently very receptive and sympathetic. Apparently, designers get about 2 – 3 percent of the profits in royalties. I managed to squeeze 7.5% out of them. So, that equals out to about $2,400 with the weak dollar.

Long story short, I’ve licensed the design to them for this run, and I’m still in ownership of it.

All in all, they were kind to me about it – however, from what I hear, them paying me wiped out all of their profit on these shirts. Should teach their designers a lesson!

Good for him! I hope designers start learning the internet is a good place for ideas, but not a place to steal whatever they want to profit!

Turning from the Democrats today, let’s take a look at Mr. John McCain. An interesting article was written yesterday looking at the history of John McCain and his eligibility of becoming President.

To properly answer this eligibility question, we need to examine what the Constitution says on the issue, what the federal law says on the issue, what the federal regulatory policy is on the issue, and the legal status of John McCain’s place of birth. All of this will determine what makes him eligible to be President, or not.

The author digs into the many laws of citizenship and goes through everything and ends up at this conclusion:

So, tying it all together:
1. The 14th Amendment and matching regulations limit citizenship to natural born and naturalized.
2. John McCain was born in 1936 in the Canal Zone to citizen parents.
3. 8 USC 1403(a) declares naturalized citizenship in 1952 on persons born in the Canal Zone to citizen parents.
4. Therefore 8 USC 1403(a) applies to John McCain at age 16.
5. Therefore John McCain is a naturalized citizen.
6. The Canal Zone was not part of the United States.
7. Therefore John McCain was not born in the United States.
8. Therefore John McCain is a citizen not born in the United States.
9. Therefore John McCain is not a natural born citizen.
10. Article II of the Constitution states to be President a person must be a natural born citizen.
11. THEREFORE John McCain is not eligible to be President of the United States under Article II of the Constitution.
12. THEREFORE John McCain should be disqualified from running for President and should be decertified and removed from all present and future Presidential ballots, and his past results should be disallowed.

Thoughts on this? Is John McCain eligible? Is this something the Supreme Court needs to weigh in on? It’s an interesting subject, nevertheless.

Going… going… gone! My pics aren’t the best, but at least I got to see the moon vanish into the night (then magically turn red)! Check them out:

Cool! I need to get a telescope so that when this happens next time I can get much better shots!