Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?

A couple of links I've seen before, but credit for reminding me goes to antipixel: (1) visualcomplexity.com has quite a collection of interesting visualizations of networks, graphs and other complicated data, some of which are really fascinating. (2) the fluideffect.com contains a gallery of before and after retouching shots of celebs, is it real or is it retouched?