The End of America

To go along with my recent reading of Fareen Zakaria's The Post-American World, I stumbled on this Slate "game". Check it out.

Manipulated celebrities

If you thought that you hadn't had contact with manipulated digital images, direct from the world headquarters of looks above everything else, there is an LA Times article on retouching of photos of models and celebrities for publication. It is scary how easy this stuff is to do with the current software and services available to everyone for a pittance.