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Entries from October 2006

Which celebrities do you most resemble?

October 17th, 2006 · No Comments

This is pretty cool if you ask me!
Upload a photo and MyHeritage.com will scan it using facial-recognition software to match you against their database of celebrities; 4,016 celebrities to be exact! Pretty good matching, too, from what I’ve seen for myself and of several family and friends.
Here’s my look-alike list for a single picture, [...]

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Ignoring an inconvenient truth may kill us all

October 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments

An Inconvenient Truth is one movie that I will recommend to everyone. Al Gore’s research is sound and the inevitable conclusions speak for themselves. This video trailer will NOT begin automatically so please start it using the controls immediately beneath the video window. It’s definitely best viewed with your sound ON.
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Can a one-person blog effectively survey the world?

October 9th, 2006 · 2 Comments

When I chose this blog’s tagline—surveying the world in byte-size chunks—I was thinking it would give me ultimate flexibility to write about anything that happened to strike my fancy. I was right about that but that flexibility came at a price: a lack of focus.
By allowing myself ultimate freedom to survey the world, I [...]

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