Woke up early this morning (5AM!) due to a restless skunk. Since I have a follow-up doctor’s appointment this afternoon, I decided to go ahead and head on in to work so I could beat the rush hour traffic, have my car, and drive to my appointment instead of having to go through the work–>MARTA–>car–>doctor’s office headache that I went through last week. But I’m verily muzzy-headed and heavy-eyed now.
Therefore, linkage:
– The Pew Research Center conducted a recent national survey to determine how well informed on politics/current events Americans are today versus in 1989. (You can take the quiz yourself.) And here’s an interesting breakdown of the poll results.
– A freaky website elemess found on photo touch-ups (click on the “More Samples” link towards the bottom of the page to see further examples of the scariness). Children’s beauty pageants squick me out.
– And finally, panda porn. And it’s even work safe–unless your co-workers/boss are particularly offended by mating pandas . . .
Writing Stuff
Published:
– “The End of the Universe” in issue #3 of Darker Matter. Free fiction. Go read, yo!
New Words:
– 600 on the Fox Princess novel.
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That photo retouching website was just scary! *shudder*
I did think it was a very apt commentary on the whole “child beauty pagent” thing that the list of modifications to the picture you linked to include “Removed tears.”
No kidding! And the “doll eyes added” thing. *shudder* And gosh, over 90% of teenage girls have self-image and self-esteem problems. Wonder what could have possibly brought that about . . .
Grrrrrr….
On the bright side, I think there’s a story idea here: What if, instead of having your child’s picture retouched, you could have your child retouched?
That would be a very dark horror story. *twitch*
I don’t see the point of retouching the pics.
Some of the adults (like the bride), I can understand (sharpening the image, making it clearer, etc), but for the rest, they looked like bad photoshop retouches.
If I had pics touched up, and they came back looking like that, I’d tell them to hire some competant artists and not their cousins’ nephew who knows MS Paint.