It would be better if it actually looked believable, every one of those pictures suffers from either color/light errors, angle errors or masking errors which makes them stand out like sore thumbs. Lesson one in matching faces to pictures, make sure that the angles the faces are at are the same and that light fall from the same angle. You'll never pass an image that's taken from the front with a flash as a real part of an image taken from a different angle with natural light coming from the side.

That's the problem I guess, without sounding elitist, that people think it's easy to do and act like they're masters after one day of learning the program. Sure it's easy to grasp the basics, but you'll be spending considerable time if you want to make something that actually looks good and believable.

Please don't impersonate me, it's childish.

ted, because people don't do frivolous things in other fields on a daily basis? No, that cannot be, that's just not heard of!

I don't really consider something you do out of your own free will to your body as something stupid, I honestly don't care, it's your body to do with what you wish, as long as you don't hurt anyone else that is.

The research did not show that it was a dumb idea (you read "some" of the article, how about reading it all next time?), though it's not devoid of risk obviously hence you don't go out and recommend people to try it themselves. These are, as I mentioned, not a few bored teenagers not knowing what they're doing, quite the opposite. Not to mention that they know the risks involved and are ready to take them.

MrImpersonator, brave and trailblazing? I never claimed anything of the sort, I merely stated that they did something relatively new and knew quite well what they were getting into. You know what else carry risks? Walking across the street, bicycling, getting out of bed in the morning, and so forth. It's all about managable risk and accepting whatever risk there may be. Indeed, one of them was seeing a doctor, but did you bother to read more than that? The doctors didn't shit a brick because of what he did (which they would've if it was anything truly riskful) and the problem was more an irritation of the muscles around the eye than anything else. In other words, no risk of eyesight loss as you try to claim.

FFS read more than just the headlines if you're going to comment and appear smart, or just appear to look like you know what you're talking about.

Ridiculous? That may be how you look at it, it certainly isn't how I and many others look at it...so it does matter how you look at it.

Pickerel is one of the nastiest fish you can eat, it tastes absolutely horrible (and I've grown up living where it's more or less extensivly fished), though for some reason it's a delicacy to some, like the French. That's beside the point that it's been shown that environmental toxins concentrates in pickerel as well because of its position as a dominant predatory fish in most lakes where it lives. So the health aspect is questionable as well.

If you want to try a truly excellent fish then something like the Arctic Char would be a much better choice, it's unbeatable. If you smoke it there's just nothing in terms of fish that can beat it.

You disagree? Okay, then you kind of missed the point. Contacts aren't body modification, these guys are into body modification hence contacts would've been rather beside the point. If they wanted a temporary thing even then I'm not sure they'd opt for contacts. This isn't really about putting blue ink into the eye, it's about trying something (relatively) new and prooving it can be done. Nor is it about how it looks (though, taste is subjective). If you actually bothered to read the article you would've read about what precautions they took and that they were quite aware of the risks involved. These weren't three bored teenagers sitting around and on a moment's whim decided to tattoo their eyes, quite the opposite.

Beside that though, done correctly under sterlie circumstances (in other words, with proper equipment and in a clean environment) the actual risk of blindness is rather slim. The eye is more resiliant than you may think and also heals quite fast when it comes to minor invasions such as this.

So perhaps, before passing judgement you could actually try to understand why they did this instead of obviously just looking at a bunch of pictures and saying it's idiotic, not to mention do your research.

meg, why would you avoid them in public? They're perfectly normal people, kind and respectful (well, aside from Josh, I don't really know anything about him, but the two others are anyway). Do you have anything against such people?

Owen, read the article instead of just looking at the pictures next time, it makes you look less like an idiot.

Tim, this isn't exactly for "coolness", if you knew who these three people are who went through with it you'd know that they are guys who are doing new things and trying new things within the body modification community. It's as much trying something new as it is about proving it can be done. Bmezine ran an article a couple of years ago about eye implants as well, which isn't all that far from this. Just a solid titanium object (thin wafer) instead of a liquid ink.

Tempscire, such contacts do indeed exist, but that's kind of beside the point since this isn't about coloring the eyes by any means possible, this is about coloring the eyes by means of tattooing.

Not to mention that it would require a considerable rush of air from within the plane to the outside to suck a person out of a window, even if just by half. So either the person was made of an undisclosed lightweight material or this is just another tall tale. The real question is this, is there any other evidence other than the story from the two men? I'd be more inclined to believe it if the man actually got sucked out and landed on the ground somewhere.

Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing, this has been up for ages already. So has Mars. Considering the cheesy centre I'm thinking it's still the same old moon though.

Now this is my kind of neat!

Any method works, it all depends on how you want the ketchup to come out of the bottle. All at once or little by little.

Since ketchup becomes less viscous (i.e. flows more easily) the more you agitate it. Hence why, if it's been standing in a bottle for a while, it'll be hard to get out. After a short while of shaking or tapping the bottle in your prefered way it will come out one way or another. That's your trivia lesson for today.

Or indeed, you could bypass this and just get a squeeze-bottle.

Three months? That lazy lazy man. If you count at a conservative rate of one number every second second for eight hours a day it would only take 69,4 days. Up the pace or count longer every day and that number drops significantly.

Count to one billion instead, that would truly be wasting your life. At the same pace as above it would only take just over 190 years.

Why'd you think that popping the keys off would cause more problems than the dishwasher? As long as you know where the keys go when putting them back there aren't really any issues, as long as you're careful. I haven't found a single keyboard on which the keys doesn't come off easy with a little coaxing from a dull table knife or letter opener. At least this way you're not exposing the electronics to water or high temperatures.

It's not like it's such a big thing to pop the keys loose, wipe the remaining plastic and what's under the keys with disinfectant. The keys you just throw in warm water (just below what would burn your hands) with a bit of dishwashing liquid for an hour or so. The warm water and dishwashing liquid will literally eat away all the grime without you having to clean every key one by one. Rinse thoroughly and let dry properly, put the keys back and your keyboard is like new. Definitely a safer way to go by things as well.

Indeed, it has nothing whatsoever to do with psychology and everything to do with math. So called illusionists use tricks like these all the time, simple (but often long-winded) mathematical "tricks" to make the utterly logical seem magical.

The funniest thing is that only one person got paid for this movie, and that was the little girl who got a new bike (not counting the dog who got paid in dog food).

There is however a modern myth circulating about this movie about actors comitting suicide after the release of the movie. While it is correct that the guy playing Torgo (John Reynolds) killed himself prior to the release he did have some other problems like depression and drug addiction, so it was hardly because of Manos.

Further more, there are, at least in my opinion many worse movies (especially if you weigh in how much money are spent on them). "Manos" is at least a good bang for its buck, which is more than you can say for (for instance) Santa with Muscles or Battlefield Earth.

That's not a 1000mp photo though, it's a 1000mp composite made from 194 individual photos. Yep, that's a pet peeve of mine, there are plenty of places online showcasing "photos" with incredibly high megapixel amounts, but they all turn out to be composited in the end.