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‘Really, some people still block right-clicks on websites? Utterly pointless, and a little insulting. All I want to do is store this wonderful map as a reference - the very purpose for which this website was designed. And of course, all I need to do it is either hit F11 and Print Screen, or CTRL+U and save the file directly from the source code.’

‘Really, some people still block right-clicks on websites? Utterly pointless, and a little insulting. All I want to do is store this wonderful map as a reference - the very purpose for which this website was designed. And of course, all I need to do it is either hit F11 and Print Screen, or CTRL+U and save the file directly from the source code.’

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Reddit Virtual Community Rallies to Repair Photo of Fellow Redditor’s Reportedly Deceased Brother & Fiancé

‘A fascinating and heartwarming phenomenon, via New World Notes. I don’t agree with Wagner James Au’s conclusion that this showcases the power of a pseudomynous internet - it happened despite that, not because of it - but it certainly shows the selfless side to this web of ours.’

The two versions of the photo below are a great testament to the power of virtual community and user-generated content, and I’ll tell you why:

Reddit community photoshop project

The photo on the left is the original, and was posted last weekend by a member of Reddit. “My brother and his fiance died in a car crash a few months ago,” he wrote, “and I just ran across this picture of them on the first day they met. It would be really cool if someone could try to restore it, so I could have it printed.”

More than one person tried to restore it — perhaps several dozen Redditors did so, putting what was probably hundreds of total hours into the effort with Photoshop and other post-processing tools. To judge by the quality of the output, many of them are almost certainly graphic artists and other professionals. Above right is the submission by “colacube”, whose submission garnered the most karma points from other Redditors. (But there are many more submissions of roughly equal quality.)

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‘Well, this was odd. An isolated email with “re:” in the subject title (never necessarily indicative of any prior conversation, of course), sent to my work address, about a topic which I do tend to communicate about quite often. That would be gaming, not.. dating. Basically it looks like I got an identikit spam email, though I cannot be absolutely sure about that. It’s very odd - the spam equivalent to the uncanny valley, perhaps? Basically the only thing which I found marks this as not a blog- or career-related email is the fact “Tony” ‘s Twitter account doesn’t exist. I do wonder what the author hoped to achieve with this email, though.’

‘Well, this was odd. An isolated email with “re:” in the subject title (never necessarily indicative of any prior conversation, of course), sent to my work address, about a topic which I do tend to communicate about quite often. That would be gaming, not.. dating.

Basically it looks like I got an identikit spam email, though I cannot be absolutely sure about that. It’s very odd - the spam equivalent to the uncanny valley, perhaps? Basically the only thing which I found marks this as not a blog- or career-related email is the fact “Tony” ‘s Twitter account doesn’t exist. I do wonder what the author hoped to achieve with this email, though.’

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