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Hey, BP! You suck at PR (and Photoshop)…

July 21, 2010

I suppose right about now you are sick of hearing any more of BP’s BS. Whether it is buying google rankings or not telling their douchebag CEO to keep his petty thoughts to himself – I know one thing’s for certain: BP’s PR disasters have just about rivaled their environmental one.
Well, now they have another [...]

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“Sir” Wong is Sir Wrong…

July 9, 2010

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Publicity chief for the Democratic Action Party in Malaysia, Jeffrey Wong Su En, thought it was a good idea to send out a press release (along with the above photo) stating he had been Knighted. It seems titles are all the rage in Malaysia these days, and short of [...]

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Obama v BP and Economist v NYT…

July 8, 2010

Above Left: Cover of The Economist; Right: Original, unedited Reuters photo.
The Economist is under fire by the New York Times for editing a photo for their recent cover. To their credit, The Economist fully admitted to editing the photo and here’s what they had to say about it…
I was editing the paper the week we [...]

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This is one for the TLS nerds…

July 6, 2010

Above: “Image Restoration” taken from Part I: Fundamentals and Local Models of the Tutorial on Modeling Natural Image Statistics for Computer Vision by Siwei Lyu and Stefan Roth.
The Times Union recently had a write up on Assistant Professor Siwei Lyu from University at Albany. An excerpt from the article…
Computers allow digital photographs [...]

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Paul the Octopus caught up in a Photoshop controversy…

July 5, 2010

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Above is Paul the Octopus – a “psychic” octopus that the Germans rely on to pick the winners of World Cup matches. (Supposedly during the 2008 European Championship, Paul correctly predicted 80 percent of all German games.) Well, looks like someone is trying to artificially pump up (or hoax) [...]

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