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Taiwanese UFO Group Releases Policeman’s Photo Of A ‘Transparent Being’

I certainly hope this is what spirits look like. The International Business Times reports:

The Taiwan UFOlogy Society (TUFOS) released over the weekend a photo taken by a policeman at Jiaming Lake in Taiwan’s Taitung County. The policeman claimed he didn’t realize there was something unusual about his photo until he got the chance to look at it more closely.

The photo shows a semi-transparent or transparent human-like figure, seemingly walking uphill with hands hanging just below waist level. The odd shape of the creature’s hands is like the shadow of snorkeling fins or Spiderman’s open palms.

“It does not appear to be an edited photo,” the Taipei Times reported expert Chien Jung-tai’s observation. But he hinted it could have been affected by a leftover image in the memory card of the camera. He said experts in optical imaging technology for flash memory devices should look into the image.

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Why We Should Take Fewer Pictures Of Our Children

Via the New York Times, David Zweig has a harrowing observation on the first generation of children raised under constant digital surveillance:

“I want to look at pictures on daddy’s phone!” I can’t recall when this entreaty started. I only know it has been repeated like a mantra nearly every day by my 3-year-old daughter for as long as I remember her being able to speak in sentences.

On the surface a child’s preoccupation with personal photos seems quite benign, or even beneficial. And yet I fear her photo obsession may hasten her self-consciousness to a degree that’s no longer constructive.

Our children’s lives are being documented to a degree never done before. I often have over 100 new pictures per month added to iPhoto on my computer. Like adults, kids often act differently when they know the camera is on. There’s a reason posed shots almost always seem so awkward and artificial compared with candid ones.

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