Brand New Vintage: Ultraviolet Stupidity

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    Tuesday, August 17, 2004

    Ultraviolet Stupidity 

    I like to check out what people are doing with Flickr! There are some really great photos posted there and some really bizarre ones.

    This is a really stupid one. Some guy who calls himself Izzard took a photo of the contents of his wallet under ultraviolet light. The effect is pretty cool -- until you realize that you can clearly read the numbers and his name off of his credit cards. If that's not enough, he photographed his license too!

    As Bugs Bunny would say, "What a maroon."

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    Editor's note: It looks like Izzard tried to smudge the numbers on one of his credit cards in the photo, so I took down my post of the original photo. I really don't want to help anyone commit credit card fraud. If I can figure out how to post it so that you can see how clear it was but still can't read the numbers, I may post it again. But don't get your hopes up. You can still check out the doctored photo -- and I don't think that "Izz" did such a great job of hiding the numbers even now.
    - New York City at 6:54 AM

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