Absolutely loved this list, found on Cracked.com:
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_664_13-mind-blowing-tricks-advertisers-use-to-manipulate-photos/
In particular, I loved item #7, which is presented below…
Man…I’ll never look at cereal ads in the same way!
Now, give the rest of the list a look, it is quite fascinating!
Fascinating list by Kevin Joseph for Slate magazine featuring the above. Perhaps my favorite is the first, involving Staples and 3D printing, though I suspect it won’t be terribly long before we all have 3D printers of some type in our homes…
Still, a great list and some very interesting ideas to be found within. Give it a look!
http://roadshow.slate.com/13-quirky-game-changing-innovations-for-2013/
Heard about this a couple of days ago. Christopher Oakley, a scholar and former Disney animator, was looking at this panoramic photograph of the Gettysburg visit by Abraham Lincoln and various dignitaries:
When he zoomed in on the crowds and looked around, he found spotted the “distinctive hawk-like profile of William H. Steward, Lincoln’s secretary of state”. Knowing President Lincoln was known to be close by his secretary of state during this visit, he found this:
Blurry? Certainly. Barely visible? Yes. But at the same time, clearly distinguishable. Congratulations, Mr. Oakley!
For the full article (including a video!), you can click here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/new-abraham-lincoln-photo_n_3988659.html
Wouldn’t hold my breath here, but we have another individual -in this case retired homicide detective Trevor Marriott- presenting his evidence for the identity of Jack the Ripper…
It seems every year or three another person comes forward with what they believe is iron-clad, indisputable evidence to who Jack the Ripper was…and we’re often given intriguing bits and pieces of information which never quite add up to as solid a case as we would have hoped…
And I keep reading the theories anyway! 😉
The fact is that the Jack the Ripper case is intriguing as hell and it shouldn’t be a surprise so many people have given it a look (and offered their theory). Mr. Marriott’s theory is just as good as any of the others, and far more plausible than those implicating assorted figures within England’s Royal sphere, yet the same problem plagues this theory as the others: 1) So much time has passed and all the witnesses and/or suspects to these events are long gone, 2) There is simply very little actual physical evidence to be found, and 3) What evidence there is was collected by a police force that was operating on a level that was primitive by today’s standards.
I’ve noted before that I believe Jack the Ripper was probably someone like Mr. Marriott’s suspect Carl Feigenbaum. A person with a deep, disturbing level of psychosis who probably came into London from outside (either that or his “work” was done with more finesse before this), did his nasty business, and either left the London area immediately afterwards or was killed or died naturally sometime shortly after the last victim was found.
Other than that, we’ll probably never know….
…which doesn’t mean it isn’t intriguing to offer guesses!
Discovered this report on CNN.com…a fascinating piece:
My guess as to the who/what about the plane relates to what was implied in the report itself: That the aircraft might have been part of a drug running group and was lost and never reported as such, which explains how an aircraft can be found on the bottom of this lake without any report of missing planes in the vicinity.
Still, love the sonar images…so tantalizing!
Is our Jetpack future finally here? Check it out for yourself:
7000 feet up and a speed of 50 mph?!
Count me out.
I have enough problems standing on the balcony of a tall building looking down at the ground below, so the idea of trusting my life on something gas powered and strapped to my back…something that could malfunction and stop (then what?!)…
Well, as I said, not for me, thank you, though I have to admit it is a cool device!
When I heard they wanted to essentially “raise” the ship back into an upright position, I wondered how it would look in a compressed time lapse film.
No need to wonder for here it is, complements of CNN. One of the more fascinating clips I’ve seen in a very long time:
The one time coin collector in me loves stories like this one:
Never before heard of the 1880 $4 Coiled Hair Stella, but given its rarity -and the fact that this particular example looks to be absolutely mint- it doesn’t surprise me its value is estimated as high as it is.
Not that I’d ever entertain buying such a luxury item! 😉
More information about this can be found here, if you’re curious:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/14/rare-4-gold-coin-coiled-hair-stella_n_3926894.html
It’s always fascinating to read stories like this, concerning the above:
For those who just want to see the painting and aren’t interested in the fascinating story behind it, here you go:
Absolutely fascinating article by Emily Bazelon for Slate Magazine explores the state attempts to surmount federal law with regard to marijuana use and guns. Her thesis: Are liberals hypocrites when they cheer states that have circumvented federal law against the use of marijuana while booing states that have tried to do the same regarding guns?
I consider myself a liberal. I have never, in my entire life, ever used marijuana (or, for that matter, any illegal drug). Yet I feel that the laws against marijuana are way too stringent and support legalization (and taxation) of the product. Why? Because 1920’s era prohibition never accomplish eliminating the use of alcohol and I don’t believe these laws against the use of marijuana will do the same.
And yet, I’m alarmed by states attempting to remove all federal laws regarding the use of firearms.
Am I a hypocrite? I don’t believe so.
Marijuana is a drug that from what I’ve read is considered relatively harmless versus so many other, stronger and addictive drugs. One of the claims often made against marijuana is that it is “gateway” drug, a means by which people start using the “harder stuff”. If that’s the case, then wouldn’t alcohol be a gateway drug as well? And what about cancer patients (among others) who suffer crippling pain and low to non-existent appetites who claim the use of marijuana helps them ease both conditions over prescription pills? Why deny them the use of a potential day to day aid?
Guns, on the other hand, were designed and created for one use and one use only: To kill. And guns, unlike marijuana, are not illegal to own and purchase. What the gun lobby/nullification cause is trying to do is kick down whatever laws there are regarding federal regulation of firearms. Laws that, let’s face it, are fairly weak to begin with.
The article discusses in much more depth the legal issues regarding both gun and marijuana regulation and the pros and cons of each. As I said before, a fascinating read.