Does anyone know where I could find a web service to do that photo transform trick where Person A (say Margaret Thatcher) becomes Person B (say Tony Blair), generating a number of progressive stills in between?
posted by imperium on Jan 22, 2009 - 4 answers

How can I get rid of Telemarketers that call and falsely say they know my boss? [more inside]
posted by genniangel0 on Aug 20, 2008 - 25 answers

Regarding the ending to David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner (note: spoilers contained within). [more inside]
posted by Blazecock Pileon on May 30, 2007 - 10 answers

I reckon an expert magician can "trick the public" most of the time - with disappearing/switching watches, coins, jewellry etc.
Given that...
1) would the normal magician-like techniques work in real life situations? In other words could a competent magician go through their life just thieving from us innocents?
2) Have any magicians ever been exposed as using their skills for "evil"? By evil I mean non-performance fraud/theft/short-term monetary gain?
A very poor example: early on in The Grifters, John Cusack gets the crap beaten out of him for trying to switch a large denomination $bill for a smaller one in a bar when he paid for a beer.
posted by selton on May 15, 2007 - 20 answers

PrankFilter: Help me prepare for my next retaliation! [more inside]
posted by backseatpilot on Dec 1, 2006 - 42 answers

Sockpuppets and gaming Digg. What other tricks are being used to deceptively manipulate opinion online?
posted by srboisvert on Oct 20, 2006 - 9 answers

So, on Waxy links today, I found this gif file, which, when loaded in Winamp, plays a brief, irritating song. How's that happen? When I load it into Windows Media Player, it displays as an animated gif. One file type, multiple properties. Can anyone elaborate on what's happening here?
posted by jonson on May 5, 2005 - 11 answers