Photoshop, circa 1902

The first photo was created in 1902 out of 3 others, below.






This comes from a cool article about early photo fakery.

"The Next Breadbasket?"

... "How Africa could save the world - and itself," from The Atlantic. The article is really short and interesting, and I like this graph a lot, but I wonder about some of the things not elaborated on - why is Germany so awesome at growing wheat, for example?

The more things change...

I think all of you will be glad to know that The South is still The South. Yesterday in Marion, Alabama two families escalated their years-old feud into "'[...] a full-scale riot [...]'" involving up to 150 people (though other reports put this number closer to 300) and leading to eight arrests and two hospitalizations. The major source of the feud is unknown, but the the day of the riot two members of the involved families were arrested at the local high school for fighting. After these arrests, family members followed the police to city hall, where the riot erupted. According to a police sergeant, people were "'throwing jack irons, throwing tire irons, anything they could get their hands on.'" Maybe the funniest line of the AP blurb: " The town's police chief was hit in the head with a crowbar but was OK."

The Grangerfords and Shepherdsons would be proud, though none were killed in Marion.