Friday, May 02, 2003

FUN WITH FLASH

Every time I look at the flash intro at this page I start cracking up, so I thought I'd share. You need the sound to get the full effect.

So out of a black hole that looks like a booming subwoofer, God's law emerges, as well as two partially obscured phrases that start with the word "American"; then, "the Constitution" drifts over this black hole and eventually gets sucked in. Brilliant. [Actually, The Constitution drifts over the hole and starts to get sucked into the booming subwoofer void, at the bottom of which is the Blackstone Insitute itself, but escapes at the last minute. That's a pretty good metaphor for a rejection of conservative approaches to jurisprudence. . .]

You should know that William Blackstone is in my dissertation, but that I put him to somewhat different uses than these folks.