More SteamPunk goodness!
SteamPunk magazine have a couple of tasty new morsels for your reading rooms; SteamPunk Magazine issue 3 AND A SteamPunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse! Both of which can be downloaded as PDF or purchased as dead tree.
Untwirl a Pedophile
The world locked eyes with a suspected pedophile today after a lot of digital photo manipulation and an apparently unprecedented global appeal by Interpol to help find him. … The suspect wasn’t caught in the act so much as found performing with a mask in public. About 200 photos of the suspect with 12 different young boys were located on the Internet in December 2004, an Interpol official said. But in each image, his face was obscured, apparently by use of a standard Adobe Photoshop effect called twirl, which is used by digital artists to manipulate images.
Apparently, the suspect, or whoever handled the pictures, did not think it was possible to reverse the twirling, a capability that at least one Interpol official was intent on keeping confidential. — Interpol Untwirls a Suspected Pedophile [The Lede : NY Times]
And how does one untwirl a twirl?
The Interpol’s fantabulous untwirling secret is a built-in Photoshop feature, according to BB commenter DHL: “The technique is very simple. In Photoshop, make a round marquee centered on the centerpoint of the twirled image, then full negative setting on the twirl filter. — Untwirling photo of a suspected pedophile [BoingBoing]
‘Sbluaaarrruugherv!’
This has become an internet viral video clip, but how can you not like the subtitled version Nattliv – mensvärk (english subtitles) where the barf is subtitled as ‘Sbluaaarrruugherv!’ Via BoingBoing
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently comes to BBC Radio 4 – Wednesdays at 6.30pm, from 3rd October 2007. A great radio play brought to you by the same team responsible for the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Six 30-minute episodes over six weeks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/dirkgently/
