How to Fool Face Recognition Systems With Make Up

How to Fool Face Recognition Systems With Make Up, article.


Hah, I'd like to try to get through NYC airport security wearing Kiss make-up.

Canon Female Photojournalist Award 2010

Canon Female Photojournalist Award 2010.

(Such a funny pic.)

Printing from an iPad

One of the silly little first-generation weaknesses of the pad is that you can't print from it. Well, it has now been solved by Steve Cencula.

Instapaper updates

Instapaper updates.
(As you should know, Instapaper is a bookmark utility which lets you save an article for later, on a device of your choice, and in a more readable format.)

Angel-A

I'm just watching the amazingly refreshing movie Angel-A (US link, UK link).

It's only now that I discover that it's a Luc Besson movie. And that the ball-breakingly hot lead actress is Danish Rie Rasmussen, who is also a film-maker herself. She's also huge. Damn. Not a gram of fat too much, but look how small the French actor looks next to her. Man, we have some good Danes these days.

Basics, folks

Here's another example of one of my pet peeves, how people always omit the basics: on TV, they never tell you which episode and which season of a show you're about to watch. It seems to me to be pretty essential information with regards to whether to watch it or not. You may own the DVD, or have seen it before, or if it's late in a season, decide not to watch it to avoid any spoilers and instead get the DVD.
Maybe the general audience are too apathetic to care about such niceties, I don't know.

Misse said:

Casinos, with very few exceptions, do not have publicly displayed clocks, and are designed to limit an awareness and contact with the outside world. Intensively farmed chickens live on an accelerated lighting and feeding program to increase food consumption.

If TV program controllers do not advertise a specific showing, how can they possibly transmit the wrong episode? There have been instances (the technology has changed, so this was in the past) of segments being shown out of order, or even from different episodes.

The medium has become a massage, so the literal content of the medium no longer has to make sense.

In the USA there is a growing tendency to show repeats interleaved with episodes from the current series. Even quality channels operate an around the clock carousel schedule, so that without stern self discipline a viewer can become a bloated, indiscriminate consumer.

The broadcasters also heighten this discontinuity and sense of being in the zone and spaced out by blurring the start and finish of segments. Gone are the Reithian days of someone in a dinner jacket or pretty frock announcing the schedule. Opening titles have been largely abandoned, and closing credits are often sandwiched between two doses of advertising.

I have friends who work in the television industry. One described his job as a supplier of moving wallpaper and mental chewing gum.

It's not all bad. I can comfortably walk through casinos (the noise is sometimes a problem, although in recent years the levels have gone down) and enjoy an hour's people watching. Engaging people in conversation is harder, their attention is elsewhere. I would like to take pix, but it is forbidden. I have mastered the mathematics of games of chance, but I have never been clever enough enough to figure out the mechanics of participating. Thus casinos are a safe place for me to shamble around, and I never carry money anyway.

TV is a harder call. An iron will is required. Selecting, and then finding programs to watch, is a Sisyphian task. I have no problems turning the TV off. I just wish the broadcasters would make it more tempting for me to turn it on. Contrary to the impression I may have unintentionally created, I think there is a wealth of engaging, rewarding, and thoroughly enjoyable entertainment and information awaiting.

That's how I feel. Because occasionally I do find it. But they make it so hard to find!

PIXELS by Patrick JEAN

Tommy found this really fun and amazing video about arcade games taking over Manhattan. 10/10 for imagination and execution.

Octopus steals my video camera

Hey, the poor guy probably just wanted to become the first successful octoped independent film-maker. And where's he gonna get the cash to buy a camera!

Magic windows

Could become something.

Gaga marketing

Ganesha Games pointed to this article about Lady Gaga's marketing.
... she had music in her blood and was playing piano by age four and was accepted at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts at 17.
She was once performing at a bar filled with drunken NYU students. No one was watching or listening to her until, fed up, she began stripping down to her lingerie. "I started playing in my underwear at the piano and I remember everyone was all of a sudden like ‘Whoa!’ And I said, ‘Yeah, you’re looking at me now, huh?’ "

All cool, just don't forget the music, honey.

Combination lap warmer and ALDITCS holder

Combination lap warmer and ALDITCS holder

Climbing by machine

[Thanks to Ray]

Tower climbing, with a ditch-digger.

The most amazing thing to me is that the idiot journalist at one point is standing right under the machine! Sure, They wouldn't do it if the chance of it falling was very big, but it has to be a lot bigger than the chance of winning the lottery!