Altered Photos

September 5, 2008 183 views

The telegraph.co.uk site has a great article on doctored photos on their site featuring 20 great examples.
I remember doing a presentation on this topic in college. The research was incredibly hard. This was before Google, so most references I used were found after hours and hours of searching. The presentation was for a Journalism [...]

Strange Blue Cloud

November 13, 2007 2198 views

In a scene right out of LOST, a strange blue cloud floated around an Ohio gas station for almost 30-minutes before quickly disappearing. Several people reported seeing the image and some believe it was an angel or a ghost.
What the online version of the story is unclear about is whether or not the image [...]

Circuit Boards + Playdough = Bad Idea

September 21, 2007 2011 views

It was a conflict of book smarts versus common sense when MIT student Star Simpson entered the Logan International Airport wearing a shirt with a circuit board and a 9V battery attached. To make matters worse, she was holding a lump of playdough in her hands.
Star Simpson, 19, was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and [...]

Apple Offers $100 Credit to iPhone Early Adopters

September 7, 2007 2225 views

Having worked in electronics retail for many years, I know that cutting edge products will always drop in price and that first gen. products will always improve with later releases. Even if I weren’t in the middle of a Sprint contract, I personally would have waited. Still, there were hundreds of thousands of people that [...]

30 Years Later - Shooter Returns to Legion

September 7, 2007 2431 views

Jim Shooter penned his first issue of DC’s Legion of Super-Heroes when he was only 13. Selling the stories to DC through the mail, Shooter created many of the Legion’s most popular characters and his run on the title (in Adventure Comics) is fondly remembered.
Now, a little over 30 years later, Shooter is once [...]

How Hard Is It - part 1?

August 20, 2007 5264 views

YouTube Spam - Seriously, how hard is it to implement a filter to keep people from posting their URL/Cam Site names as comments on my video posts. Any given day I can check and 1/3 of my new comments will be spam. Marking it spam never seems to work and I swear that if I [...]