If someone shines a laser beam directly into a digital camera and takes a picture, if you look at the picture with your monitor's brightness on maximum you can be blinded.
Lose the maxiumum monitor brightness -- you don't ever want to count on people to change the defaults. Also, it needs the internets-will-eat-your-babies quality and the some-guy-my-cousin-knows hook. Revise to:
A guy named Joe in Ypsilanti shone a laser pointer at his digital camera and took a picture, and then everyone on earth who looked at the recently posted page on Flickr went blind all at once.
A guy named Joe in Ypsilanti shone a laser pointer at his digital camera and took a picture, and then everyone on earth who looked at the recently posted page on Flickr went blind all at once.
This is totally true! My sister's neighbor knows the guy!
P.S. Forward this to everyone in your address book or you'll go blind too.
oh come on. Please? For me? All-you-can-gore, no questions asked.
Dude, it's all I can do to keep myself from mauling people today. No need to beg.
Garfield minus Garfield:
So much better than the original.
Lose the maxiumum monitor brightness -- you don't ever want to count on people to change the defaults. Also, it needs the internets-will-eat-your-babies quality and the some-guy-my-cousin-knows hook.
Good points.
This is totally true! My sister's neighbor knows the guy!
P.S. Forward this to everyone in your address book or you'll go blind too.
If I had more motivation I'd totally try to spread this over the internet.
co-workers, this is shrift. shrift, co-workers. Please to excuse me...
(MM, I need that sound effect from KristenT's classroom here...)
What the laser story needs is the "news media cred" angle. Something like...
"According to a story in the Ypsilanti Courier, Michael Dortmunder, 22 years old and a photography student at a local university, shone a laser into a digital camera and took a picture as part of an 'experimental photography' course section. Upon viewing the results on a monitor in the computer lab, however, he was immediately struck blind, as were two unnamed students who attempted to help him."
co-workers, this is shrift. shrift, co-workers. Please to excuse me...
(MM, I need that sound effect from KristenT's classroom here...)
Happy to oblige...
*Stabbity stab-stab!* *SPLURCH! squeeky*
