In a joint project with Google, the United States National Archive has released over 100 historic films that can now be viewed for free  on the popular Internet search engine. The downloads include newsreels from the Cold War era as well as the footage of the world's first moon landing. The National Archive is hoping to find a broad audience for the previously unreleased films, which the archive's director, Allen Weinstein, described them as "rare and unusual." "Students and researchers whether in San Francisco or Bangladesh can watch remarkable video such as World War II newsreels and the story of Apollo 11 -- the historic first landing on the Moon," said Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder. The oldest film, "Carmencita -- Spanish Dance," stems from 1894. Currently 104 films are available, including 60 US government newsreels and a collection of NASA documentaries about the history of space flight.

Fake Photography

What everybody now calls photorealistic painting started long before cameras ever existed. Come on, don't you remember those renaissance paintings from that art history class you slept through? Well, painters these days have to complete with computer generated images that are becoming ever more life-like. So it was only a matter of time before a photographer decided to mount a counterattack. Olivo Barbieri  takes aerial shots of cities around the world with a "tilt-shift lens" technique that makes everything look like tiny models. The Colosseum in Rome, Las Vegas and even landscapes in Tibet -- just a few that look more  fake  than ever.