Wired has gotten hold of an incredibly disturbing set of photos from the US torture crimes at Abu Ghraib. Does anyone really believe that this was just a couple of rogue operators? If I wanted to reduce the number of jihads in the world, I’d start by making sure that stuff like this didn’t happen [...]
One of the things that makes Flickr so mesmorizing is the ability to watch image sets using Flickr’s slick slideshow feature. But if you’re looking for an alternative slideshow viewer, you might want to check out Flickr Cover Flow or Flickr Guckn.
Both sites essentially do the same thing. They let you view Flickr sets using [...]
A security guard at the Fareham Shopping Centre in the UK accused a middle-aged couple of terrorism and banned them for life when they took out a camera to take a picture of their grandchildren. After the press jumped on the story, the manager of the mall said that they weren’t terrorists, but that taking [...]
Myspace, which acquired photo-sharing powerhouse Photobucket back in May, now allows users to easily insert their Photobucket pictures into Myspace comments. To take advantage of this feature, just login to Myspace and attempt to comment on another user’s profile. When the comment box appears, enter your witty, extremely original comment, then click the “Add image [...]
Seen here is a portion of one of the “Best AFP Photos 2007,” taken in southern Taiwan on April 11, 2007. Apparently, the arm once belonged to a veterinarian tending to the crocodile
Whoa. Deputydog’s got some amazing (and global) photos of the rich-poor divide, which is always most visually apparent in cities. Click here to peep.
Microsoft Corp. will soon submit to an international standards organization a new photo format that offers higher-quality images with better compression, the company said today.The format, HD Photo - recently renamed from Windows Media Photo - is taking aim at the JPEG format, a 15-year-old technology widely used in digital cameras and image applications. Both [...]
The editors of Macworld seem to have recently had a craving for edible imagery.
This month’s issue features: Oreo Picture Cookies (seen here), Oreos dipped in white chocolate, printed with edible ink, and then sprinkled with sprinkles; and Sugar Craft’s service where you send a digital image, they print it in icing, and ship it [...]
Here’s a great reason that the (on-again / off-again, oft-bandied) NYC ban on subway photography sucks - breathtaking and comic photos like this one from Flickr user gothamistllc of the waterfall at Penn Station last night (8/11/06).
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AOL announced today that starting next month it will offer 5GB of free online storage for all web users. The free online storage will start in September, and will be powered by Xdrive, a service acquired by AOL late last year. There will be no charges for uploading or downloading documents and files, and users [...]
Those cats at MIT have been at it again: when not fooling around in their dorm rooms or playing with robot snails, they’re toiling away in the lab late at night developing technologies that could well become commonplace in our everyday lives. Their latest breakthrough is a sphere-shaped web of photo-detecting fibers that can measure [...]
There’s a number of web-based image manipulation apps out there, e.g. SnipShot, but Preloadr sets itself apart by being designed to integrate tightly with Flickr. It uses the Flickr API to let you choose photos from your Flickr library, edit them on the web, and then save them right back to Flickr. It has all [...]
Publicly available satellite photos are starting to reveal military installations and programs denied by the Chinese government. The most recent issue of Imaging Notes, a satellite photo newsletter, features an article called "The World's First Look at China's Underground Facilities for Nuclear Warheads."
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