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Woot : Winners’ Gallery: the Best of Contest 57

So I tied for first place in this week’s Woot photochop contest. Apparently when folks tie for first place, everyone gets second. Whatever, it’s fun and $50.00 I didn’t have before.

It is actually a nice affirmation, as I never thought my ‘chopping skills were that 7337, but seeing as even after the winners were posted, one person commented on the winners page, that he didn’t understand the image I submitted, and had to refer to the original CD cover (and have the change explained to him) before he noticed the change I made – I apparently have some skills after all.

For those of you to lazy to check out the page, here is the contest description, and my entry:

Contest 57: Time Waits For No Camera
BY JASON TOON FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 12:00 AM
CONTEST
Everybody knows how bitter it feels to just barely miss the awesomest photograph ever photographed. Just a second late to the shutter release and the Congressman stops picking his nose, the penny you’d balanced on its edge falls over, the presumed-extinct hummingbird flutters out of frame. Today’s Vivitar camera offers a Burst mode that rapidly takes three pics in two seconds, but not every cam carries such niceties. The scourge of mistimed shooting will continue to plague shutterbugs everywhere, as you’re about to show us.



Create a “snapshot” that would’ve been incredible had the photographer clicked the shutter a second earlier.


Whether it’s a just-missed historical event or an almost-amazing image from everyday life, make it convincing, clever, and funny - there might be some long green in it for you. Post your image in this discussion thread by 11:59 PM Sunday night. Prizes are $20/$50/$100 for 3rd/2nd/1st. The rules and criteria for winning: our panel of geniuses can and will make stuff up as it goes along. Use Photoshop, pen and ink, collage, MSPaint, colored sand, quilting, whatever, but it’ll only be judged if it’s visible in our forums as a jpg, gif, or png. Try to keep your maximum width to 450px. If you need a place to host your pictures, try www.imageshack.ws or www.photobucket.com. We have no connection to either, but they seem free and easy to use.

Yet another reason to go to Wartburg, and not Gettysburg.

Well – it turns out that Wartburg may not be the only seminary that dresses up a Martin Luther Statue – but we clearly do a much better job.

it’s time we shed light on the joy so many get in controlling the sexual thoughts of others through intimidation.

I doubt I could have said it better myself

So sandy and I went to Monroe Wi. today to… well, to… ok it’s Wisconsin, we went to take a tour of a cheese factory OK a cheese factory you made me say it. I hope your proud of yourself.Anyway - so we drove an hour to see, a cheese factory.But the thing is, that when we got there, we found out that the factory stopped giving factory tours after 9.11, fearing terrorists might use the tour to strike, and… disrupt the regional supply of Roquefort, I suppose.Just think about that for a moment.The managers of a cheese factory are so worried about a terrorist attack on their facility that they stopped offering tours.A cheese factory.A cheese factory.Not even a big cheese factory.When did the nations cheese supply become so important that it needed to be protected from terrorists?Maybe a better question is this:When did people start thinking that a cheese factory was a credible terrorist target?I’m serious about this folks – if this is the level of terror hysteria our nation is in – that we turn our cheese factories into bunkers, for fear of terrorist attacks against our precious Muenster – the terrorists have already won.It is true – the day that we changed our lives to accommodate terrorism, the terrorists won. The day we were terrorized into allowing the government to strip us of our civil liberties in order to prevent “terror,” the terrorists won. The day we changed our voting habits, when we were terrorized into voting for the guy with the six shooter on his belt, the terrorists won. That is the bad news.The good news is this:In 2008 you can vote the terrorists back out of office.But you probably still won’t be able to see how cheese is made. We might have lost that sort of freedom forever.

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