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Fake Photos

“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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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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Fact or Faked – a new show coming to SyFy…

June 20, 2010

While watching Ghost Hunters last week I saw a promo for an upcoming series on SyFy called Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files and it sure sounds like my kinda show! From the SyFy website…
Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files is set to revolutionize paranormal programming by investigating the evidence witnesses post on the Internet [...]

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Shopping Silvio (again)…

February 8, 2010

Oh Italy, how I love your Photoshopping ways! I have written about Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, before and now we have been graced with this gem…

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You really need to view the enlarged image to see the Shops in [...]

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