David Pogue, in his New York Times technology weblog, points to an amazing new image cropping and resizing algorithm. Watch the embedded video if you have any interest in picture manipulation. The commenters to Pogue’s post mention disturbing implications for truth in journalism but it seems to me we are way beyond worrying about the technologies for image manipulation in that regard. We have to worry, and have for a long time, far more about the personal integrity of the manipulators than the techniques they have at their disposal.

Apparently, the day after this was posted on YouTube, Adobe snatched up the developer. [thanks to walker]