Facebook logo-eye stock photos are annoying

You might have noticed that the eye with a Facebook logo on it is becoming something of a trope within the media, especially in news reports about how Facebook is bad.

Unless I'm missing something, though, all these pictures are fundamentally wrong. Take a look at my own 'Facebook eye' photo below. What this picture shows, apart from the fact that I'm never going to be an eye model, is that when you look at something on a screen, the mirror image is reflected in your eye. Duh:

Also, I was sitting about 10cm from a full-screen Facebook logo on a 13" screen to achieve this. So this leads me to think that the people in the stock photos must be sitting with their noses pressed up against a cinema screen, browsing the web in reverse.

I don't think I can trust stock photography ever again.

Uncon

Disappointed not to be able to attend this year's Fortean Times meeting, Uncon 2011, this weekend. In a strange bit of synchronicity, I found a photo from Uncon '08 (above) today, while looking through folder of otherwise unrelated photos. Good times.

Bash script to bulk check UK domains

I am trying to learn Bash scripting. This one performs Nominet whois lookups (checks the availability of .uk domains). Disclaimer: I don't know how well-formed it is - probably not very. Use at your own peril!

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