Spies

So I have a professor here who is a former spook. She said her job in the 60s and 70s was to analyze photographs coming out of China. The US had so little intelligence on what was happening in there that they could only infer changes in leadership based on the order that people stood in during official photographs. You laugh, but it was surprisingly accurate. Many pictures in historical archives have been doctored to exclude people (lined up all in a row like this) that fell from grace. So you have pics like this, with giant gaps where they erased every trace of a "rogue" leader. Just thought it was funny. More pics here.

PS: Also funny thing I picked up on the web (but I can't find it right now) is that in-text links have a lower click-through rate than saying something like "link here." What has an even higher click-through rate? If you tell someone to do something, they usually will. Apparently, "blah blah blah, you should click here" is the most effective.