This cries out for a photo mashup, so here it is:
That’s the first photo mashup I’ve ever done, so it’s very simple. I opened the protester facing a column of tanks photo in the GIMP, opened the pretty Tiananmen Building photo in a second layer, then searched for filters that would allow me to combine them — Layer|Transparency|Color to Alpha accomplished exactly what I wanted.
I thought this JPEG export at zero quality looks kind of neat.
NB I don’t think Google has done anything wrong google.cn. The appropriate response is not anger with Google, but action to spread the information the Communist Party of China wants to suppress.
Speaking of Google+Despotism mashups…
http://discardedlies.com/entry/?11611_google_photoshops_at_michelle_malkin
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/images/googlesquarecopy_1.jpg
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