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Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images: Scientific American Modern software has made manipulation of photographs easier to carry out and harder to uncover than ever before, but the technology also enables new methods of detecting doctored images Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo: Scientific American This story is a supplement to

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Pilot View FPV 2400 First Person Video from Hobby Lobby! Want. (tags: toys camera) Read at Work Wonderful, if rather windows-themed. (tags: books flash funny) Process bound …for when the process is more important than the communication.

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Warning: May Offend People Who Are Offended By This Sort Of Thing. Via Adriana’s Flickr.

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Via Geoff – fantastic: “The software is in the holes” (Update: and as ever, half of the enjoyment is in watching my peers nitpick the correctness of the story in the Comments section; alas for my demographic who will never simply let themselves have “fun”…)

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So the Twitter site says: Pagination and IM are currently disabled. They’ll be back. …and lo! hovering over the “Older” button pops up a message: Twitter is stressing out a bit right now, so this feature is temporarily disabled. Wanna make bets over how much of that stress is due to folks hitting “reload” repeatedly?

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YouTube – Chinese Truck Crash Testing Don’t drive one of these

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Before: After: Isn’t Photoshop wonderful? (Via)

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A rechargable, electric, artificial cigarette which is legal to smoke “anywhere” and is advertised by Bill Wyman? Riiiiiiiiiight. SuperSmoker – The alternative cigarette (Warning: autoplay Quicktime video with annoying cheap-TV-advert voiceover) Of course if you were to buy one of these things and smoke it in a pub, the amount of time you would spend

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Bray thinks that the first program which should be documented in any programming language book is “Hello, world.” – and I agree with him. I have several times felt a pang of “when I am going to be able to interact between the code I am writing and the person who is using that code?”

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Did you know that Apple gives discounts for tattoos? (As I learned from Laureen yesterday evening)

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While in the USA, being introduced to them by Adriana, I picked up a pair of MBT shoes: For those who have not encountered them there is a certain amount of marketing hokum which goes on at excessive length about how some Swiss scientist worked out that Masai bushmen never had foot problems and had

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This reads like something that Kibo would have produced in the early 1990s, but because it is in The Economist and for a serious company, I am presuming that some trendoid got paid vast sums for creating this drivel: The Future? What Future? I’m the Future! I’m ALWAYS ON! Fifteen-year-old Olga is a Parisian high

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