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Liu Bolin - The Real Life Invisible Man
35-year-old Liu Bolin , from Shandong, China, manages to camouflage himself in any surroundings, no matter how difficult they might be.
Extreme Makeover Optical Illusion
In this edition of extreme home makeover, we can see some real optical illusions.The Department of Homeland Security monitors your updates on social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to uncover “Items Of Interest” (IOI), according to an internal DHS document released by the EPIC . That document happens to include a list of the baseline terms for which the DHS–or more specifically, a DHS subcontractor hired to monitor social networks–use to generate real-time IOI reports. (Although the released PDF is generally all reader-selectable text, the list of names was curiously embedded as an image of text, preventing simple indexing. We’ve fixed that below.) To be fair, the DHS does have an internal privacy policy that attempts to strip your “PII”–Personally Identifiable Information–from the aggregated tweets and status updates, with some broad exceptions:
The Department of Homeland Security Is Searching Your Facebook and Twitter for These Words
Via my evil twin Richard Wiseman comes one of the best color optical illusions I have ever seen. The original was apparently posted on Buzzhunt Akiyoshi Kitaoka’s incredible optical illusion website : You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color . At first I thought Richard was pulling our collective legs, being a trickster of high magnitude.
The blue and the green
SWiSH Max is a flash creation tool that is commonly used to create interactive and cross-platform movies, animations, and presentations.
SWiSH Max
Gridless takes the boring parts of making websites and webapps out.
Gridless - An awesome HTML5 & CSS3 boilerplate for mobile first responsive, cross-browser websites
How To Copy 35mm Film with DSLR Camera | Photo Fun
Updated 30/08/2010 – I have now written my step by step guide on scanning negative film
Australian data hosted in the cloud my be subject to US law, say lawyers.
What will you do when the US comes for you?
This set of pages documents the Content Security Policy proposal put forward by Mozilla Security.
Security/CSP
The Tangled Web
brothke writes "In the classic poem Inferno, Dante passes through the gates of Hell, which has the inscription abandon all hope, ye who enter here above the entrance. After reading The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications , one gets the feeling the writing secure web code is akin to Dante's experience." Read below for Ben's review.Once upon a time there was a browser named Firefox -- an open source project that many people happily picked up and spun off into their own versions with names like Iceweasel and Pale Moon. Now the same thing has happened with Google Chrome. Its open source incarnation, Chromium, has become the basis for a slew of spinoffs, remixes, and alternative versions.
6 Google Chrome remixes worth trying | Applications
Two months ago I wrote a blog entry about a photoshop disaster at Victoria's Secret . The original picture featured a model with a digitally removed handbag. While the handbag was the obvious manipulation, it was not the only modification -- they altered the dress, dress color, and even the model!
Body of Answers - The Hacker Factor Blog
Copying Family Photos A common problem with family photos is that only one person has physical possession of an old family photo album. It might be an aunt or uncle, who will eventually pass it on to some grandchild, niece or nephew.
All About Digital Photos - Genealogy - Copying Old Photos
Invert Colour Negatives In Lightroom | Photo Fun
Having written my previous article on scanning slides with a digital camera I have decided apply the theory to copying negatives. Using Adobe Lightroom which is my favourite image processing application, I will show how to obtain perfect negative copies including removal of the negative colour mask.illusions, special effects, editing
Image Analysis, Forensics
3D of some kind
videos
Animation
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