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Nordstrom: Transparent Blackout

Wearing shoes like this is difficult enough, least of all when the top strap is missing from half of the shoe.

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Readers, we could use your insight on this one. Are we looking at an inexplicable removal, or is the far strap perfectly parallel with the nearer one? Leave us your thoughts in the comments.

Thanks Violetta for another great find. The original was found in an Nordstrom newsletter.

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The Stroller Strategy: Back Me Up Here

Rarely are movie studios so transparent about what they don’t include in a film.

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I thought we were looking at a checkerboard background, until I saw the movie poster and realized somebody forgot to include the grey background layer. It’s like that time my parents left me at the mall, but in this instance, someone eventually noticed.

Nice find Graham. You can see the original on the Apple site.

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Atlas: Cut-Priced Cut and Paste

I suspect some of the price cuts they boast might be the result of a scaled-back marketing department.

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Even the dog seems unimpressed by this one. Is it so hard to take a picture of a stationary structure? Why the deception? Why the cut corners? If you can’t trust a cut-price shed outlet, who can you trust?

Also, since when is cut-price a term?

Thanks Mel! You can see the original on the Atlas site.

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Yonhap News: Rooms Apart

It looks like North Korea found something they can do better than South Korea – the art of Photoshop.

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As many newspapers have pointed out, there are actual photos of President Obama and President Park Geun-hye shaking hands. So why the two-room, three-handed slapdash of a picture? Commentary about the nature of international politics, or is the border in Korea so bad that this is what Yonhap News thinks a unified picture of diplomacy looks like?

The original was found by Gizmodo.

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ABC.es: Trustworthy Online News

ABC.es is Spain’s leading online news source, probably because they’re so trustworthy and would never doctor a photo.

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If ABC.es has to survive with shoddy cut-and-pastes that accompany their stories, they can do what I do: ladle sarcasm on the opening sentence, point out my own inconsistencies, and hope that nobody notices I’m following a formula.

Thanks Oscar who was the first to send this into us.

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Ann Taylor: Thigh High

High-belted fashion trends have lead to some confusing proportions in today’s models.

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The light-blasted silhouette makes this model look extra-skeletal, but the hands on the hips are what draw the eye to the real disaster. There’s less thigh in a 20-piece bucket of chicken.

Thanks Maria. You can see the original on the Ann Taylor Facebook page.

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