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Are these see-through images photoshopped onto the laptop screen portion of the image rather than displayed on them?

That picture is a real picture of real laptops, showing what is actually on their screens.

What they do is this: Set up the camera on a tripod, set up the laptops.

Take a picture of the scene with the laptop open (#1), and with the laptop closed(2).

Take the part of the background covered by the screen in Pic #1 from pic #2, and load it into photoshop. Turn it and convert it so with will look correct, from the correct angle, when loaded as wallpaper. Load it as wallpaper on the laptop, and take a new, final picture.

Of course, in that one, they did this three times, for three "overlapping" laptop screens.

Here's how I'd do it. I don't know if it's how they do it:

Take pictures from a tripod with and without screens.
Overlay them, and on the "without" picture, mark the locations of the corners of the screen on the "with" picture.
Cut out the quadrilateral marked by those corners, reshape it into a rectangle, and set that as the desktop.
Retake the picture with the screen.

Redo it for each layer.

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I wonder what's in the skillet? Eggs?

Anyway, it's a pretty sweet set-up.

Hey! Ya gotta do what ya gotta do!

re the laptops..... if you liked that, you may like the 'infiniite cats project' which does a similar sort of thing.....


http://www.infinitecat.com/

...if you liked the Infinite Cat Project check out http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

Or how about some talking cats?

Oh Don piano...

And don't forget cats in sinks...

ha

Now we know what face a dog makes when it is longing for the sweet release of death.

"The Death of Dignity.
Poor pug.

It took me a minute to see what was "wtf" about that van. But then..... :O

Did someone etch that picture in the dirt on that van? Or is it a weird paint job?

yeah, it looks like a never take it to the car wash ephemeral-type art.

Not really a WTF, but cool anyways.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/pic00041.jpg

:lol2:

I'll bet you can see that sign - chock full of buckshot holes - all over Texas.

WTF???
 

Truely!

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "For proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It proves that you exist, therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

"Oh," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Well," says Man, "That was easy!," and goes on to prove that black is white and is killed at the next zebra crossing.


^all from memory, too...

BTW...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...1444123744.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...bombs/1355.jpg

Don't make me do it!... you are evil and must be....

Nazi tortois races?

Perhaps they are "growing" helmets? :eek:

Proof of concept for VW Beetle design?

hee hee....

Anyone know what the f*** this bug is? Looks like a cross between a bee, a wasp and a bat. :) Hard to tell from the pic, but it's probably about twice the length of a normal bee. I'm in Austin, TX, but can't find a pic of this in the Texas bug books I have.

Maybe a hummingbird clearwing moth? The color isn't quite the same, but the color pattern and body shape is about right.

Nice find! :thumb: Definitely a clearwing moth, looks like it could be a Snowberry Clearwing Moth based on the coloration. Mine seems to have shorter wings than the ones in these pics, but I've been told size isn't everything.

Some more links with pics for those interested.

http://www.birds-n-garden.com/snowbe...ird_moths.html
http://www.images.on.ca/Cossey/pages..._Clearwing.htm
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/images/snowberry2.jpg
http://www.cirrusimage.com/moths_sno..._clearwing.htm

thanks again Happy Monkey!

curious banknote
 

I found this when I was cleaning out my dad's apartment. It was apparently over printed with black and inflated from 10 whatevers to 10,000 whatevers.

So there you have it. Actually, I have it.

the other side

If my math is right this may be worth fifty U.S. cents.


córdoba (C$)Nicaraguan monetary unit from 1912 to 1988. Relatively stable for most of that period, the córdoba's value plummeted in 1985. By mid-1988 the official rate was US$1 = C$20,000 (US$1 = C$60,000 on the black market), and the córdoba was replaced by the new córdoba (C$n; q.v.) at a rate of 1,000 córdobas to 1 new córdoba.

We get a lot of those here... when in flight they look like a hummingbird.

other examples of hyperinflation of currency:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

I have a pre-WWII Deutschmark that's been stamped for a higher denomination somewhere in a box that I haven't opened since I moved 12 years ago.

Hard to compete w/you, Bruce, when it comes to DoDads.;)

Bruce, I've been holding back on the doodads until i got a new 'puter w/ dsl capability. Now you'll have to contend w/ not only my collection of doodads but my late dads dodads.

I'll post his CSA uniform buttons made into cufflinks tomorrow.

aussie will find this funnier

who really saved the miners?

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/6...rescuer5gl.jpg

What about this one ... 500 billion Dinara from Yugoslavia back in 1993. Hard to imagine anytime that 500 billion of ANYTHING would be worth nothing.

I remember a couple years ago, Turkey slashed six zeros from the end of every denomination of money.

The information sheet that came with this has a table of the monthly inflation rates that occurred. The single month of Jan 94 had an inflation rate (are you ready for this?) of 313,563,558 % ....

:lol2: I GOTTA GET ME ONE OF THESE PUPPIES!

Kagen, theres some serious air brushing gone on there!!

really? unlike you i wasnt checking out DH that closely ;)

http://pics.livejournal.com/coiled_metal/pic/000g00d8

FO REALS, YO!

Where were you, when the machines came down from the sky?

I have a cousin who buys used cars at auction and he told me that stretch limos do not have a long lifespan, so you might be able to get one cheap and have your own.

Now I want a new miter saw for Father's Day. ;)

I have a cousin who buys used cars at auction and he told me that stretch limos do not have a long lifespan, so you might be able to get one cheap and have your own.

A few years ago we were rideing thru the bean and rice fields , my mind was waundering and I woundered what they did with old limos , about then we passed a small house , by this small house there was an old limo and a lady was loading about 15 kids in to it , I have since seen them cruseing about .
Weird when that happens !!