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A run down pub in Liverpool has doubled in value due to some graffiti on the side of it. The pub was originally worth around £495,000 before the graffiti appeared. It is now worth around £1 million after the graffiti was found to be the work of Banksy, an artist who is known for his images of vermin. The estate agents overseeing the sale have been inundated with offers from buyers looking for an investment.

This is strange its art created with fish heads. The pieces are created by French artist Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard and depict everyday scenes created with fish heads. The artist gets her inspiration by choosing a topic from the radio or a newspaper before visiting a food market to source the fish heads. Her mother helps her make the costumes and each piece of art can take up to three months to create.

This giant ice penis was photographed by a man called Andy Rouse in Antarctica. The article that accompanies the picture gives assurances that it is a genuine picture rather than a photoshopped job. What do you think, giant ice penis or clever Photoshop work?

This is quite a good post from Oddee. It shows some examples of Photoshop mistakes where the user has not looked at the bigger picture. In one example a person has been "photoshopped" out of the picture but their hand has been left in place on the girls shoulder, whilst in another a basketball player seems to have lost his head. It can be easy to get caught up in Photoshop and forget about the overall look of what you are trying to achieve, let these examples be a warning.

It can be really irritating when you want to edit a document but find you have lost the original word document and only have a PDF. Most of the time you can extract the text from a PDF but this can be time consuming and it often needs to be reformatted. I found a useful post on askowen the other day that deals with the problem and offers several possible free solutions. One of which involves filling in an online form at freepdfconvert which takes a couple of minutes. It does however, only support documents that are up to 2 pages long and also requires you to know the password if the PDF is password protected,