On Jan 13, 2006, at 12:17 PM, William Robb wrote:
I looks to me like the eyes were especially sharpened. To get
that effect you would make the rest of the image look over
sharpened or completely mushed up.. Though to be honest it's
difficult to compare a couple of jpegs when one is four times
larger than the other., but just for kicks I tried to reproduce it
by playing with sharpening and blurring the larger image then
resizing it to the smaller size, I couldn't even come close. Lets
face it was somebodies little joke. Which left the AP with egg on
it's face.
I thought the picture on the right was the normal Condoleeza, and
the one on the left was toned down for public consumption.
WW
Today's news:
Breaking News
SEN. BIDEN PRODUCING DANGEROUSLY HIGH LEVELS OF CARBON DIOXIDE
Talkative Lawmaker Creating Environmental Threat, Scientists Fear
Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who has dominated this week's
confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito with his
seemingly nonstop talking, is producing dangerously high level of
carbon dioxide that could pose a serious environmental threat,
leading scientists said today.
While many observers have found Sen. Biden's interminable orating
tedious and wearisome, few suspected that the lawmaker was producing
gases that could threaten the ecological balance of the planet.
But at a conference in Oslo, Norway devoted to the environmental
challenges posed by Sen. Biden's endless nattering, scientists today
said that the Delaware Democrat was producing levels of carbon
dioxide that could prove harmful to many of the earth's species.
"Carbon dioxide is a necessary part of the photosynthetic process
that allows plants to grow," said the University of Tokyo's Dr.
Hiroshi Kyosuke. "But the massive amounts of carbon dioxide produced
by Joe Biden could prove to be too much for even the hardiest
vegetation to process."
Dr. Kyosuke and his colleagues were mulling a number of proposals for
reining in the ecological threat posed by Sen. Biden, including
urging the Environment Protection Agency to issue tougher emission
standards for U.S. Senators.
The scientist said his peers were also "deeply concerned" about a
possible environmental threat posed by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass):
"There is a serious possibility that Sen. Kennedy's head will block
out the sun and cause all life on Earth to wither and die."
Elsewhere, at a press conference in Switzerland today, skiing
champion Bode Miller made an impassioned plea for drunk skiing to be
recognized as an official Olympic event.
