You better 'Shop around

In the most recent in a series of online controversies to take on the mainstream media, a series of Web sites discredited a Reuters photograph of the fighting in Lebanon, forcing the news agency to issue an apology and remove the image from their archives.

I'm not as much disappointed with the attempt at manipulation as I am the sheer brazenness, lack of skill, and contempt for his readers shown by the photog. Because for the love of God, you can tell this is 'Shopped on Lynx. Sorry, guys, you don't get an Encyclopedia Brown pat-on-the-back for catching this.

Picspam Monday

I'm stuffed to the gills with Chick-fil-A, but thought I'd deploy a bit of week-beginning diversion. ( 84 pics below.... )

AOL sucks, this time in an entirely new yet hysterical way

AOL must have missed the uproar over the DOJ’s demand for “anonymized” search data last year that caused all sorts of pain for Microsoft and Google. That’s the only way to explain their release of data that includes 20 million web queries from 650,000 AOL users.

Two gigs (439 MB compressed) of raw search data. And yes, even anonymitized, it's not a pretty picture.

There are hundreds of searches from people looking to kill themselves and even more scary are searches from users that seem to be looking to commit murder.

AOL, I liked you better back when you were Q-Link.

Unrelated yet amusing: Flickr Engrish group. Know thyself.