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Nanotech gets big in the marketplace

From a gadget that helps you achieve good posture to socks that don't stink, products made with teeny-tiny particles measured in nanometers are beginning to crowd store shelves.

Plus-size women take TV; fans see mixed blessing

Ask model and fashion designer Emme whether television and other media are more accepting of plus-size people, and she quickly corrects you.

More still cameras also doing video

In the beginning was the Word. Then came pictures. And digital still cameras began doing double duty as camcorders, while nearly all camcorders allow some form of still photography as well.

‘Fall guy’ takes pictures of his own plunges

Go ahead and call him a fall guy, because that’s how photographer Kerry Skarbakka makes his extraordinary, critically acclaimed — and sometimes controversial — images.

Images from Campaign 2008: fist bumps and lipstick

Obama's fist bump. Palin's lipstick. McCain's plumber. Clinton's tears.

Google appeals possible German ban on image search

Google has appealed two court decisions that could ban it and other search engines from operating image searches in Germany, a spokesman for the Internet giant said Thursday.

Local Calif. GOP compares Obama to Osama bin Laden

The official Web site of the Sacramento County Republican Party compared Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and urged people to "Waterboard Barack Obama."

Discipline the keynote of 1st presidential debate

There was no Al Gore sigh, no George H.W. Bush checking his watch. The occasional moments when candidates let down their guard or lose their cool — unfortunate for them, but entertaining for the audience — were for the most part absent from Friday's presidential debate.

Fighting to get control of convention

Republicans faced the same problem during the second night of their convention Tuesday as Democrats did a week earlier: trying to wrestle television networks for control of their story.

Waging the image campaign overseas

Barack Obama has packed his overseas trip with presidential images: a helicopter ride over Iraq with the U.S. military commander; a visit to a Holocaust memorial; a meeting at Afghan President Hamid Karzai's palace.

Methodology for Pets and Politics poll

The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that will track the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. The fifth wave of this study included re-interviews of 1,759 people between June 13-23 who were originally interviewed in November or early December. The extensive national survey was conducted by Knowledge Networks of Menlo Park, Calif., under the direction and supervision of AP's polling unit.

Old guy vs change: McCain, Obama images take shape

Now more than ever, it's the old guy against the agent of change.

Getty Images Agrees to $2.1B Buyout

Getty Images Inc., the leading seller of stock photography and video footage, said Monday it has agreed to a $2.1 billion buyout from the private equity group Hellman & Friedman LLC.

New 3D 'flyovers' let viewers swoop down on Mars

The Columbia Hills loom in this still from a virtual flyover generated from MRO images (Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS)

Beagle 2 Mars lander still lost after all

The keen sight of the HiRISE camera on MRO found no trace of the lander in the crater where it was thought to lie (Image: NASA)

Sleep well before learning something new

Sleep deprivation can severely hamper the brain’s ability to learn, a new study demonstrates.

Conspiracy theorists must face the truth of Mars hill

The "Face on Mars" is revealed as a lumpy hill in this new view with a resolution of 13.7 metres per pixel. Mission scientists reconstructed the 3D shape of the hill using data from Mars Express's stereo camera and overlaid it with fine surface details from Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera (Image: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/G Neukum/MOC/MSSS)

Spammers Turn to Images to Fool Filters

Spammers are increasingly sneaking their messages past e-mail filters by sending their pitches as images rather than text, spam experts say.

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Man put indecent images on trees
Source: BBC News

A convicted sex offender who stuck indecent photographs of children on trees has been jailed for two years and four months. Hugh Hay, 54, from Rutherglen, pinned images of young girls in dense woodland on Cathkin Braes, near Glasgow.

78 people in a leaking boat ... - On Line Opinion - 11/11/2009
Source: onlineopinion.com.au

Agreed let us demonise 78 escaping terror including escaping from substandard detention camps and turn a blind eye to westerners overstaying their Visa in tenfold numbers...

Google makes Similar Images part of image search
Source: CNET.com

Google on Tuesday announced that its similar-images feature is now a standard part of the company's image search technology.

35 Years of the World's Best Microscope Photography
Source: Wired News

This image of the male sex organ of a flowering plant took first place in Nikon's annual Small World photomicrography competition this year.

Astonishing pictures of what animals do... when they think no one is looking
Source: the Mail online

Stereotypically the animal usually associated with a love of mud is pigs but as these pictures show, elephants are just as content rolling around in the dirt.

Photo Gallery: Microscopic Photographic Art
Source: The New York Times

Since 1975, Nikon has been awarding annual prizes to scientists and enthusiasts who take pictures through a microscope. Popularly known as a maker of professional and consumer cameras, the company is also a major manufacturer of biological and industrial microscopes.

France floats law requiring Photoshopped images carry a warning
Source: Yahoo! Tech - Daily Features

Ever look at a picture of a model and think, "Man, those lips can't be real. That skin can't be that smooth." Of course you have. That's because they aren't. And it can't.

Kids see child porn on iPod Nano at elementary school
Source: ow.ly

Students at an elementary school in Polk County recently looked at child pornography on an iPod Nano belonging to a Winter Haven man, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said today.

Police Renew Call For Tips In Bold Bank Robbery
Source: theindychannel.com

Police again asked for information Tuesday that might lead to the arrests of two men who donned masks and wigs and took an 11-year-old girl hostage as they robbed a bank on Indianapolis' west side Saturday morning.

Probe into sending of child 'sex act' images
Source: Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed

TELECOMMUNICATIONS experts are now trying to determine if camera phone images relating to an alleged sex act involving infants were ever transmitted.

Chain store names and shames suspected shoplifters in defiance of human rights laws
Source: the Mail online

A retail chain was today accused of 'vigilantism' after posting pictures of suspected shoplifters in its store windows and on the company website.

Now I Know Why Washington Doesn't Do A Damn Thing.

Just My Opinion.... I saw a story this morning about a local republican headquarters that had re-posted the images of the President as the joker. Thought little of it, other than it was stupid like most politically motivated caricatures, and that it was not racist.

Photoshopped images: the good, the bad and the ugly
Source: The L.A. Times

Kim Kardashian has practically made a living off her curvaceous figure. But the E! network celeb was looking a little less shapely in Complex magazine in April, her body reduced about a dress size, her legs smoothed to near-perfection.

Registering your Images with the Copyright Office
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Should you register your images with the Copyright Office

U.S. releases unclassified spy images of Arctic ice | Reuters
Source: Reuters

The United States released more than a thousand intelligence images of Arctic ice to help scientists study the impact of climate change, within hours of a recommendation by the National Academy of Sciences.

Electrified flowers make astonishing artworks
Source: Telegraph

Flowers were electrified with 80,000 volts of power to produce dazzling images of the natural world.

Swedish women plagued by 'video masturbator'
Source: thelocal.se

Police in Lund in southern Sweden are working to track down a man suspected of placing sexually harassing video calls to two women in the area.

Glenn Greenwald on Obama, Torture, and the Reflexive Urge to Suppress Evidence
Source: Salon.com

It would be one thing for the Obama administration to argue that there is no value in releasing torture photos specifically, and in investigating and imposing accountability for past abuses generally, if there were consensus among Americans that torture is wrong, barbaric and --  …

CEO gives board members a pornographic surprise
Source: thelocal.se

The CEO of a municipal housing company in Dalarna in central Sweden has been reprimanded after pornographic pictures popped up during a recent presentation to the company's board.

After 74 years, Kodak retires its Kodachrome color film

It's sad to learn that Eastman Kodak Co. later this year will discontinue production of Kodachrome, a color film that, during its 74-year run, captured memorable images ranging from World War II action to family photo sessions that resulted in slide shows, notes Grumpy Editor.

As Google Agrees To Delete Unblurred Street View Images In Germany, One Is Used To Solve A Crime
Source: Techdirt

Earlier this week, Google agreed to delete unblurred images in its Street View database. If you don't know, Google Street View involves cars driving around photographing everything, so they can be placed on Google Maps. It's quite useful.

Some Old Favorite Images, Nothing Special - I Just Like 'em and Wanted to Share Them

No theme - just some earlier digital photos the I have liked from Day One and wanted to share.

Leaf and Lighting Challenge Presented by A. Mac

Once again I post some pictures in response to a challenge presented by our own illustrious A Macarthur I must say A Mac has been quite the inspiration for taking pictures and seeing what beauty I can find with my camera.

I Take DYHAF's Photo Challenge; Turn-About is Fair Play, What Goes Around Comes Around and Whoopin' Me with My Own "Stick"

I asked for this - so, here goes! First, the background. Recently I challenged VINE photographers to take a "photographic challenge," namely, to shoot as many pictures as they could in fifteen minutes to see if they could get at least one "winner."

The Other Bird is Victorious in 2009 Belmont Stakes [video]
Source: ScienceBlogs

Kent Desormeaux, the other cajun jockey in the Belmont Stakes, rode the other son of Birdstone, Summer Bird, to victory in today's Belmont Stakes.

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