Amnesty International is encouraging people to participate in their a holiday card action. I've never done this before, it's my first time, others I know do it more regularly, so don't hesitate to join, too! I bought some greeting cards like two, three weeks ago, but started procrastinating when I…
The "Unicef Photo of the Year 2007" is this picture by American photographer Stephanie Sinclair of an 11-year old Afghan girl sitting next to her 40-year old soon-to-be-husband. Photo caption: Portrait of soon to be wed Faiz Mohammed, 40, and Ghulam Haider, 11, at her home in a rural village…
Check out this video. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg[/youtube] Isn't this exciting? This new technique is called seam carving. Seam carving is an image resizing algorithm developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. This algorithm alters the dimensions of an image not by scaling or cropping, but rather by intelligently removing pixels from (or…