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Poking through Shorpy.com today at the ref desk in between bouts of checking out the Oxford Atlas of the Civil War*, and they have a photo of a man born in 1793, who was a veteran of the War of 1812 and volunteered to be a sharpshooter at the Battle of Gettysburg. A link in the comments leads to another Shorpy page with a discussion of photographs of the earliest-born person ever photographed.

Also today, a 1903 photo of the Zuni elder Si Wa Wata Wa.



* A class has an assignment due, and most of them seem to be doing it now. XD

Yoon's picture!

Here's the more-or-less final result of Yoon's picture. :D

( Cut for pic! )

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I've just discovered TinEye, an image search engine. You upload a picture (or install a browser plugin that you can activate by right-clicking an image), and it searches its database for matches.

It's still in beta and has only a small database - a few million pics - but some experimentation with it has managed to uncover some image dump forums where some of my fanart, mostly the older stuff, has been uploaded. It confirms that this is my most popular picture EVAR, with three pages of results. I also proved to my satisfaction that I managed to nail the Naruto chapter title page style when I did this picture back in the day, because it returned four hits - all of them official Naruto title pages! I should run some of the doujinshi scans through it and see how far they've traveled.

It also reminds me that when I upload a pic, I need to have my DA address VERY CLEAR in it.

Anyway, some time from now, when its database is much larger, it should make the jobs of those of us who occasionally put on our Copyright Avenger masks much easier. *wanders off to DA to try it out*

Art and Science

The 2008 winners of the Dance Your Dissertation Contest have been announced.