How many men do you need to recreate the 60,000 man amphibious landing at Omaha Beach? Why three, of course:
The rapid proliferation of Photoshop and similar programs has led to wealth (or a plague?) of altered historic photographs. How far are we from an equally widespread ability to alter moving images? Somebody is surely working on the Zapruder film right now, putting Hillary on the grassy knoll...
(I also posted this at Metafilter where a good discussion ensued.)
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