Believe it or not - and I didn’t - the blue and the green are the same colour. I had to zoom in in Photoshop to prove it to myself. There’s a close-up here.

Looking again at the full-size image, I can just pick up a green tinge at the edge of the upper-left blue, but that’s all. Impressive. I’d be interested to see a writeup of it at Illusion Sciences. Via Richard Wiseman.

That said, I was smiling throughout Die Hard 4: it was clearly written sans geek. My favourite part was ”he could download the entire financial data of the US onto a portable hard drive”, when the average portable hard drive would barely hold my photo collection. Incidentally, said financial data could then be taken anywhere and used to move money in an untraceable manner…somehow…

Of course, Die Hard made up for it when Bruce Willis jumped onto an airborne F35. Give and take. And it’s not as bad as the CIA using Norton Antivirus in The Bourne ThirdOne. That was offensive.

Alternatively, there might just be a lot of Andrews, although this seems unlikely.

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1. though it could be worse

I’ve been in London since last we spoke, sorting out family stuff. It’s been a curious couple of weeks, as - I feel bad saying this - independent of home stuff I’ve actually been having a great time. I photographed the big BHA Darwin / Humanism / Science day, as well as a memorial celebratory service, a book launch, and the International Humanist & Ethical Union international conference. I was also in the audience for the Radio 4 News Quiz, as well as upcoming BBC3 sitcom We Are Klang. Someone flirted with me in a coffee shop. I failed to understand bus routes a lot. And this morning I nearly got splatted.

So a strange mix of highs and lows, but starting to calm down now. I’ll head home - officially the most charming town in the world (they clearly haven’t met the swans) - soonish.

I’m in town for a fair bit, as starting tomorrow I’m photographing the European Humanist Federation’s general assembly, which should be fun. Lots of events centered around the big Darwin, Humanism and Science conference on Saturday. I’ll be wandering around in the background, trying not to drop anything during the talks.

I was already in fits, then the backing singers at 1:20 completely took me out.

I watched the whole thing on the iPhone - after buying it through iTunes - and that’s definitely the way I’ll get it in future. No adverts, no tv announcers saying “and now, it’s a tragic day for…” or whatever, great quality picture/audio, and the ability to watch in bed / on the train / wherever. iTunes syncs the last few unseen episodes without any effort, too.

1. if the tiniest bit scientifically dubious

It’s tricksy because the negative itself was retouched in the ’30s - can you spot the change? I couldn’t, despite knowing what I was looking for. Then I looked at the original, and the edit is now all I can see. Probably forever. I can’t believe I never noticed it…