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This Chrome extension makes Instagram ‘likes’ visible again

06 Dec

Over the past several months, Instagram has steadily removed publicly visible ‘likes’ from content posted on its platform, a decision that has polarized users. As the company explained earlier this year, hiding ‘likes’ removes the competitive feel from the platform, encouraging users to focus on the content, not how many people are engaging with it. A new Web browser extension changes that.

Called ‘The Return of Likes,’ this new Chrome extension enables users to view like and comment counts on images when browsing Instagram using a Web browser. ‘Instagram has stopped displaying the number of likes and comments in some areas,’ developer Socialinsider explains, ‘[and] that makes the life of a Social Media person very complicated so we thought about lending a hand.’

‘The Return of Likes’ extension is available in the Chrome Web Store now; it doesn’t appear to be available for any other Web browsers at this time.

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Watch a mirror, LED, razor and a camera make the invisible visible

16 Jun

If you have a camera and a long lens, then you’re halfway toward a Schlieren photography setup. YouTube channel Veritasium demonstrates the effect in the video above, essentially revealing gasses and airflow normally invisible to the human eye. All it takes is an optical-grade concave mirror, an LED, a camera on a tripod with a telephoto lens and a razor blade.

What the camera sees with everything aligned is actually the slight differences in the refractive index of whatever’s in front of the mirror. If you light a match in front of the mirror, light from the LED will change direction slightly differently as it passes through the warmer and cooler air around the flame.

We don’t normally perceive those differences, but this setup reveals them as lighter and darker spots to the camera. The same thing happens with, for example, butane escaping from a lighter. Light passes through it at a slightly different angle than the air around it, and the Schlieren rig captures those slight differences.

Suddenly, it’s possible to see the heat displaced when you rub your hands together, or worse, the stuff that flies everywhere when you sneeze. It’s pretty darn cool, especially when played in slow motion as in the video above.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Ghost Loos: Visible Remains of London’s Underground Bathrooms

23 Mar

[ By WebUrbanist in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ]

underground toilet

Tentatively titled “Toilets at Dawn,” this photo series documents the strange phenomena of underground public bathrooms of urban London, now deserted but many dating back to Victorian times.

abandoned loo gentlemen staircase

Photographer Agnese Sanvito has taken to capturing these abandoned urban relics in the best light possible, often by shooting them in early-morning hours.

abandoned historic bathroom ironwork

Living, at the time, in a cesspool of industry and publicly-discarded human waste, Victorian Londoners gladly paid a penny or two to get out of the streets and into subterranean restrooms. Though most of these were neglected in the years following World War II, their surface remnants still stand in many places.

abandoned bathroom entry space

“They’re part of the fabric of the city, but because they’re not in use no-one pays attention to them, they are forgotten spaces,” says Agnese. “At the moment, I have just photographed those in the area that are near to me. It’s a work-in-progress, I don’t know where it’s going. Now my friends call sometimes and say, ‘I’ve found another one.’”

abandoned bathroom station historical

Once prominent and highly functional, most of these remainders go largely unnoticed in the bustle of the city, until you start spotting them, then searching out more.

abandoned alley bathroom entrance

Some are obscured trees, weeds or rubbish, but underneath you can still find gorgeous detailing and meticulous ironwork. Others have even been converted into everything from restaurants to private homes.

abandoned bathroom london victorian

Today, more conventional, above-ground, and generally less-exciting restrooms (some for free, others for a fee) have largely replaced these vintage curiosities.

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Inter-Dimensional Beings Visible in Water Vortex?

16 Apr

I have recently noticed that an interesting phenomenon takes place when I shine my 250MW Green Laser directly down the center of the vortex. It seems to disrupt the rotation of the neodymium magnets within the container and eventually the rotating magnets begin to rattle in a pattern that sounds almost like electricity, or the Schumann Resonance. Additionally, the reflection/refraction of the laser light as it is pointed down the vortex displays a fascinating and very dynamic fractal symmetry. At approximately 2:39 I begin shining the laser down the vortex take a close look at 2:41-2:49, and 3:49-3:51. Notice the strange silhouettes visible within the top of the vortex… Try taking screenshots of this and enhancing them in photoshop… I enhanced some of the screenshots last night and was thoroughly creeped out by the result. I’m looking forward to your thoughts about that! Try the experiment out for yourself and by all means share your thoughts with me. YoungTesla www.extropedia.org The book “Living Water- Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy” by Olof Alexandersson was the root of my inspiration, which inevitably led to this experiment.
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