i26.tinypic.com — ...Yeah, they are getting nowhere...More... (Odd Stuff) |
FCC Hearing: Comcast Caught Paying People to Fill the Room www.portfolio.com — Comcast paid people to wait on line and fill the room at their FCC hearing, effectively excluding any opponents from attending the hearing. Some of the people that they hired were even caught sleeping! (pic) Hundreds of people that were not paid to show were denied entrance. More... (Tech Industry News) |
China: Famous Photo Was Faked: Photographer, Editor Fired online.wsj.com — It turns out that train tracks in Tibet aren't where the antelope play.Earlier this week, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, issued an unusual public apology for publishing a doctored photograph of Tibetan wildlife frolicking near a high-speed train.The deception was uncovered by Chinese Internet users who sniffed out a Photoshop scam.More... (World News) |
Photo is of boy loved by Anne Frank www.msnbc.msn.com — British newspaper has published what it calls the first known photograph of a boy Anne Frank fell in love with and wrote about in her famous diary. More... (People) |
Paintings of Japanese Monsters [PICS] www.pinktentacle.com — In the sophisticated popular culture of the Edo period (1603-1868), much attention was devoted to Japanâs rich pantheon of traditional monsters and apparitions, known as youkai. Sometimes frightening, sometimes humorous, these compelling Japanese folk creatures were the subject of numerous artistic and literary works.More... (Arts & Culture) |
Taking Pictures of Strangers: Part I www.mentalfloss.com — For some reason when I get out my camera, I take pictures of strangers. Strangers donât pose. They do funny things without realizing theyâre being watched. And when you get the pictures back, theyâre never around to complain about how they look. What I'm doing is called street photography.More... (Arts & Culture) |
7 Brilliant-but-Problematic Ecological Energy Ideas [pics] ecoble.com — It is all too easy to get excited about the next big sustainable technology for saving energy and non-polluting sources of power, but often the flaws in many of these ideas are overlooked. These seven approaches are theoretically brilliant and show smart out-of-the-box thinking but lack feasibility. In some cases, they might do more harm than good.More... (Environment) |
www.10dailythings.com — Security Center MayhemMore... (Linux/Unix) |
Raise the Dead in Your Own Yard www.wackyarchives.com — Today is a good time as any to scare your friends. And hereâs a new trick on how to get a few good screams. Make your friends freak out using only chicken wire and these pics for instruction. More... (Odd Stuff) |
The Salad Monster: Eat Your Greens or They'll Eat You! framebox.de — In November 2006 Till Nowak created the image "Salad". For this image he created 12 digital vegetable models in 3ds max using photographic references. They were combined to become a tribute to the fantastic biomechanical creations of H.R. Giger and the vegetable portraits of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. More... (Arts & Culture) |
[PICS] The Sad Final Days of a CompUSA gizmodo.com — It's always sad when a store you used to frequent goes out of business, how about when that store used to mark up its prices like mad? Things become slightly less sad. Nevertheless, this desolate scene at a Portland CompUSA definitely brings a slight tear to our eyeMore... (Hardware) |
EXCLUSIVE: 'Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?' Poster www.cinematical.com — Cinematical has just received this exclusive final poster (click on the image for a larger version) for Morgan Spurlock's new doc, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? More... (Movies) |