The Swedish flatpack furniture company Ikea says it "regrets" that images of women went missing from the Saudi version of its mail-order catalog. Women are visible in the version of these same images in the English-language Ikea catalog. "Excluding women from the Saudi Arabian version of the catalogue is in conflict with the Ikea Group values," said a spokesbot this week. And, check it out: they're also PUTTING SOCKS ON PEOPLE! (HT: Antinous + Maciej Ostaszewski)

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Boing Boing reader Nicholas Longtin of Minneapolis has carefully 'shooped a series of photos from the 2012 Olympics to include his cats. I'll consider it complete when this shot's included. (via BB Flickr Pool) ]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/08/04/caturday-5.html/feed 13 http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:31:44 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=168246

Gary He of Inside Images today tweeted his photoshopped interpretation of an epic CNN gaffe. His 'shoop visually references the historic 1948 photo of just-elected President Harry Truman displaying before a crowd a newspaper that incorrectly reported his defeat.

The image went viral after inclusion in this New York Daily News article on how CNN and Fox totally blew it, by incorrectly reporting that the health care mandate championed by Obama was voted unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, when the opposite was in fact the case. More on Poynter. (thanks, Miles O'Brien!)]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/06/28/the-hilarity-of-cnn-foxs-b.html/feed 13 http://boingboing.net/2012/05/31/its-shopped-this-new-app-wi.html http://boingboing.net/2012/05/31/its-shopped-this-new-app-wi.html#comments Thu, 31 May 2012 16:32:29 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=163864

At Poynter, Craig Silverman writes about FourAndSix, a new photo forensics tool now in beta. The idea is to create tools that "sniff out digitally altered images." Two of the people behind it: Kevin Connor, former VP of product management for Adobe Photoshop, and digital image forensics expert Dr. Hany Farid. (via Erin Siegal)]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/05/31/its-shopped-this-new-app-wi.html/feed 4 http://boingboing.net/2012/02/24/maru-internet-famous-cat-goe.html http://boingboing.net/2012/02/24/maru-internet-famous-cat-goe.html#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:11:52 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=145586

Everyone's favorite internet cat goes to the Academy Awards. Well, in poster form. You can't buy the posters, or the cat, but you can buy the book. More about the legend in this previous Boing Boing post.

(Cheezburger via Swintons via Bricorama via @antderosa)

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA NOSES, by Simon Fletcher. "GOD IS THE ARTIST. I JUST FIND THE NINJA TURTLE IN HIS WORK." (thanks, Joe Sabia)]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/10/17/teenage-mutant-ninja-noses-a-tumblog-of-greatness.html/feed 8 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/15/how-beautiful-space-photos-are-made.html http://boingboing.net/2011/08/15/how-beautiful-space-photos-are-made.html#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:06:21 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=113523

The Hubble Space Telescope doesn't just produce glossy, full-color posters on its own. It takes a little work to get from raw images to the photos we gawk over on the Internet. This video takes you through the process of turning three different black and white images into one complete, beautiful photo of a spiral galaxy.

Video Link

More info on the official Hubble site

David Kaplan, assistant professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, sent me this gif, showing the differences between an image of the Andromeda Galaxy produced by astrophotographer Robert Gendler, and the image of the Andromeda Galaxy that serves as the default desktop wallpaper in Apple's OS 10.7 (Lion).

Apple has once again altered the Universe according to their whim. They moved/removed many stars, and got rid of a whole galaxy. This is M110, which is one of M31's [Andromeda's] satellites. The other big satellite, M32, is still there.

Kaplan says he hasn't looked lately, so he can't guarantee that galaxy M110 hasn't actually vanished from the sky. But he's pretty sure it's only really been lost to Photoshop.