If Facebook had been around…

Sorry about the quality. If you can’t read the text, it says:

“This carnival rules! Check the cotton candy booth!”

“I already went to the dunking booth and the face-painting booth!”

“Just stay away from the John Wilkes Booth.”

Stefan designed the poster for the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a division of Dave Eggers’ tutoring organization 826LA as part of a fundraising event.

Stephen says, about the poster, “I can’t take credit for the excellent tagline “a tournament of verbal smarts and fraudulence,” but exposing Lincoln’s hustler past (and his brain)? All me right here. I hope you’ll like it.”

Derek Waters has put together a series called Drunken History. In this particular one you get to watch Will Ferrell play Abe and Don Cheadle play Fredrick Douglass. Mary Todd Lincoln is played by Zooey Deschanel.

Watch the clip on YouTube

An Australian man died recently and went to Heaven, as he stood in front
of the Pearly Gates; he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him.

He asked, ‘What are all those clocks?’

St. Peter answered, ‘Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on earth has a
Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock move.’

‘Oh’, said the man. ‘Whose clock is that?’

‘That’s Mother Teresa’s’, replied St. Peter. ‘The hands have never
moved, indicating that she never told a lie.’

‘Incredible’, said the man. ‘And whose clock is that one?’

St. Peter responded, ‘That’s Abraham Lincoln’s clock. The hands have
moved twice, telling us that Abraham told only two lies in his entire
life.’

‘Where’s Kevin Rudd’s clock?’ asked the man.

‘Rudd’s clock is in Jesus’ office. He’s using it as a fan.’

I actually enjoyed this one more than the first. Although I absolutely love the Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian just has so much cool stuff! Plus having introduced the main characters in the first movie they were free to get on with the fun and general silliness.

I won’t give away the story, but it will be no surprise to find Abe full of wit, wisdom and of course coming to the aid of our hero and heroine.

Abe’s voice is done by Hank Azaria, who also plays Kahmunrah and does the voice of the Thinker. Hank is best known for his character voices in the Simpsons.

I liked Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart too, she is full of spunk.

You too can get Lincolnised as part of the Chicago History Museum’s Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial celebrations. There are exhibitions, tours, and multimedia downloads. In fact, you can even be a part of the action by Lincolnising yourself! You can view the results on flickr.

There are two fantastic online exhibitions: Lincoln and the West, which is based on the autobiography that Lincoln wrote for the 1860 presidential campaign. It has some lovely photos, maps and drawings. The other exhibition is The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, which highlights the fundamental changes in Lincoln’s attitudes and opinions, and how they saved America.

Now that might not seem like all that many, especially given how easy it is to self publish these days. But a little research revealed that with over 50,000 Lincoln books published to date, only Jesus and William Shakespeare can claim more!

With 2009 marking what would have been Lincoln’s 200th birthday, there is re-newed interest and new books are coming thick and fast.

A list of 155 essential Lincoln books is provided by Daniel Weinberg at the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago. The list hasn’t been updated in quite a while so it is missing all the really good recent stuff, but it’s a good place to start, for all those Lincoln nuts wanting to start their own collection.