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Color photos of Nazi-occupied Poland circa 1939-1940.
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On another nature related post, check out the second part of the National Geographic 2012 photo contest, courtesy of In Focus.
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Apple’s profit in context.
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Now that is cool. ScriptKit is an iPad app that lets you program by dragging and dropping snippets of code.
ScriptKit is a touchable programming environment for building simple mobile prototypes on iPad using native iOS UI components and social media APIs, available via an intuitive drag and drop interface.
Facebook might let you auto-upload photos from iOS
The feature is a big deal for Facebook since photos are a core driver of return visits and time on site. Most people take way more photos with their phones than they upload to Facebook and the social network wants to close the gap. Instead of having to manually choose photos and wait for them to upload, Photo Sync makes this all very low friction, which could drastically boost the number of photos people publish.
You could upload all your photos to Facebook and restrict their visibility to only you. Thus, when you’d want to put a photo on Facebook, it’ll already be there. This is big for them; perhaps they should expect that Apple will block this.
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RIM’s CEO Thorsten Heins was caught using a yet-to-be-launched BlackBerry 10 phone taking pictures next to Andrew Bocking, another RIM exec during the last Lakers game.
Isn’t surprising that they both took photos at the same type and that the person who took the photo had an HD camera? This leak looks awfully staged.
I know that even bad press is good press or whatever, still, a CEO leaking his product to create the buzz is quite a desperate measure.
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Facebook - The notifications icon shows a different side of the globe depending on your location.
/via Thomas Park
Cool.
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Shifting US ideologies. Notice how Republican ideology is going outward from the centre since approximately 1975.
Ideology here is measured according to the DW-NOMINATE scale, a score that ranges from -1 (extremely liberal) to +1 (extremely conservative) based on legislative votes, and is designed to be comparable across time. (The source data is available for download at voteview.com.) The width of each band represents the spectrum of all but the 10% most extreme legislators within each party; the dark dot shows the median.
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Obama Conspiracies, neatly organised by Mother Jones. Click to enlarge.
Is this photo from the Syrian conflict too baroque to be real?
Photo by Elias Edouard for Getty Images.
A reader sent Der Spiegel an email arguing that this photo and the series that come with it was too baroque, elaborate to be actually untouched. It had to be a fake for it looked a little bit too much like Jesus being taken down from the cross.
Here’s the email by Hans-Peter Stricker:
“I have serious doubts that the two photos accompanying the article ‘The Manbij Experiment’ on pages 93 and 94 of the print issue are 'real.’ I myself and every other layman I pointed this out to immediately noticed that 'something’ wasn’t right about these two pictures: They seem 'too beautiful to be true,’ too arranged, too composed, too much baroque 'Descent from the Cross’ and 'Pietà’…”
“Coincidentally, they are from the same photographer and the same agency. Was nobody at SPIEGEL suspicious? Was the authenticity of the pictures verified?”
“Please take this inquiry seriously and not too lightly. I expect a serious answer. And am very curious to know.”
“Best regards”
Spiegel educated Hans-Peter on its process before publishing photos. A team of reviewers would always make sure that the photos published in Der Spiegel weren’t fake. Elias Edouard, 21, freelance photographer was confronted by Der Spiegel with the reader’s suspicions, to which he replied:
“I can understand that readers mistrust images, but I also hope that they not only consider the authenticity of the photos, but that they also empathize with what the Syrian people have been experiencing living under constant fire the past 19 months. I hope that my series helps open people’s eyes.”
Thanks, Ed, for doing the right thing.
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A guy jumps from 39 kilometers up in the stratosphere, freefalls for 4 minutes while his maximum speed was 1137 kmh. Pretty standard day.
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Breathtaking pre-digital light drawings of New York in the 1970s by artist Eric Staller. Also see Denis Smith’s Ball of Light project.
