Anatomy of a Photograph

Zombietime has an interesting look at how creative cropping can change the message of a photo.

Via Checksum Crusader

September UNCG Surplus Sale

There will be another UNCG Surplus Property Sale on Friday, September 9, 2005, from 9:00 a.m. to noon. This time, Fox TV news cameras will be there, so this might be the last sale you can get into the sale without waiting in a huge line. Last time I was there a couple of years ago the line had about 50 people in it at 8:30 AM.

Intelligence

ViaMugu.com:

"'[Bertrand] Russell was a titan of modern philosophy and arguably the most intelligent man of the twentieth century, but [Paul] Johnson (1988, Intellectuals) notes that he was totally detached from physical reality. He could not make his hearing aid work, and he never learned how to make a pot of tea. His wife kept leaving him detailed instructions, for example, 'Pour water from kettle into teapot'-but he never got the hang of it.'
Daniel SELIGMAN, 1992, A Question of Intelligence:
the IQ Debate in America. New York : Carol (Birch Lane)."

Beware of online donation scams

The Federal Trade Commission and Better Business Bureau have issued consumer warnings, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has received complaints about some websites set up to ostensibly aid victims of Katrina but actually intended for stealing credit card numbers and other personal information, and eBay said it had terminated several auctions of Katrina-related domain names earlier this week.

Computer security firm Sophos also warned of an email containing news stories about the disaster, but links in the email take users to a site that attempts to load virus code onto a user's computer. Once infected, a computer can be controlled remotely as a zombie and used to launch spam attacks, for example.

Via Marketing Vox