New Google Earth - AMAZING
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11 Photos Where Black People Were Awkwardly Photoshopped In or Out
For some reason, black people and white people still don’t seem to like taking photographs together.
Which makes it awfully difficult when a magazine, newspaper or brochure wants to demonstrate diversity.
I dug around the Internet for the best pictures I could find where a black person was either blatantly Photoshopped in or out. Here are the 11 funniest and most absurd ones I found. (Huge, preemptive dap goes out to the brilliant blog Photoshop Disasters, who pointed me to almost half of these.)
1. Photoshopped diversity in Toronto. Our first entry is the most recent one… this comes from a summer fun guide that Toronto published last month. A spokesman said they “superimposed the African-Canadian person onto the family … [with] the goal to depict the diversity of Toronto.”
They made the change because of a new policy in Toronto where the city manager mandated the staff always try to represent the cultural mix of residents.
And, according to Kevin Sack, Toronto’s director of strategic communications, awkwardly plopping a miscellaneous black guy into a photo is sometimes an acceptable substitute for, ya know, actually having races mingle. Sack told reporters, “The policy doesn’t say Photoshop, the policy says ’show diversity’ … [but] when you’re publishing something with deadlines and you don’t have the right photo, the objective is to communicate the service.”
2. Curves cereal. If you’re an overweight black woman, listen up: Not only does Curves cereal help you lose your belly… it turns it white! (And belly button-less, like Kyle XY.)
Jun
1
Lifehacker’s List of Essential Free Windows Downloads
This was taken from Lifehacker:
We feature downloads of all kinds every day at Lifehacker. Today, however, we’re bundling all the best free downloads for new computer owners, re-installers, would-be geeks, or anyone who wants to save time installing the best stuff out there. This is our 2009 Lifehacker Pack for Windows computers.
The idea is the same as when we first introduced the Lifehacker Pack more than three years ago—a single, handy list that we think improves the computer lives of Windows users. We’re also providing a utility to download some or all of these applications at once—more on that after the list.
You can head directly to each application’s download page from the [Download] links following their write-ups, and see what Lifehacker originally wrote about them at the [LH Post] link. If there’s a portable version of an application that you can run off a thumb drive and/or test out without installing, we’ve linked to that at [Portable], or added a “+Portable” to the main download link.
Onto the list!
May
17
How To Install Windows 7 On Almost Any Netbook
This was taken from Gizmodo and I posted it because I know a bunch of people are having trouble with their notebooks and could use a fresh start.
Windows 7 is free for now, and works extremely well on netbooks. That said, installing the OS on these tiny laptops—especially low-end models—can be daunting. Here’s how to do it, the easy way: