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Happy Friday,

Mirror image generator
A little project that grabs photos from Flickr -- you pick the subject -- and then presents them as pairs of mirrored halves. Get symmetrical.
http://symmetry.sytes.org/


Photo Tampering Throughout History
Photography lost its innocence many years ago. Interesting stuff here. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/


BTMYD
"Ever read a book (required or otherwise) and upon finishing it thought to yourself, "Wow. That was terrible. I totally feel dumber after reading that."? I know I have. Well, like any good scientist, I decided to see how well my personal experience matches reality. How might one do this?" Imagine the world when everything is correlated this way. (Thanks Raygun)
http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/


Quick pic: What's really inside that iPod?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23252423@N08/2811645618/sizes/o/


QuOteD
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." -- Thomas Sowell


Lego album covers
Always good for a few clicks -- famous stuff recreated in other stuff. Album art is to modern pop as the classics are to their eras, no?
http://www.thetoyzone.com/20-album-covers-recreated-in-lego/


50 Incredible Film Posters from Poland
Are they, "conceptual masterpieces [that] put the original American posters to shame every time...truly beautiful works of art," or just bizzare?
http://wellmedicated.com/inspiration/50-incredible-film-posters-from-poland/


Friday game: Flies time
Aim. Swat. Kill.
http://majman.net/fly_loader.html


It's not just a good idea
And with the weekend here, some words of wisdom, just in case. In the first half of a two-part lecture , professor James Duane of the Regent University School of Law makes the case that, given the myriad things that can go badly, you should never talk to the police, and in the second half, Officer George Bruch of the Virginia Beach Police Department ... agrees.
http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2008/07/eight-reasons-even-innocent-shouldnt.html


Famous last words
"Vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking." -- Earl Wilson


Enjoy and have a good short weekend,
vW