Why doesn’t mainstream press link to primary sources?
Posted on February 11, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Let’s say you where reading news in Findory (I really like this service), and you found a link to National Geographic’s Photo in the News: New View of Saturn’s Blues.
You thought: that looks great, can I make that my desktop image (after a bit of cropping).
But National Geographic don’t provide a link to NASA website [...]
Prisons report “zero error” after one year use of 3-d facial recognition system
Posted on February 11, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Prisons report “zero error” after one year use of 3-d facial recognition system : SecureID News
In the real world where success is much tougher to achieve, satisfied customers in challenging locations such as prisons are reporting ‘zero errors’ at the solution level after almost a year of use and nearly 100,000 identity transactions.
tags [ facerecognition [...]
A Chance to Name a Monkey
Posted on February 9, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
This is right up my alley: Yahoo News reports that you can bid online for the chance to name a newly found species of monkey
The highest bidder will have the name of their choice permanently entered into all future references, including scientific publications, field guides, and other publications, that mention the new species.
Wallace said the [...]
Longline
Posted on February 9, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
longline proof of concept
Originally uploaded by Genista.
This is cool.
Thanks to FlickrBlog.
Automatic cartoon generator
Posted on February 8, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
From Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped comes Cartoon-O-Mat, a cute little random cartoon generator.
tags [ cartoon ]
Read More..>>Robot Porn
Posted on February 7, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Outerspace is a project by Andre Stubbe and Markus Lerner at the Berlin University of the Arts that might as well be described as robot soft-porn. (They say it was developed as part of a “Lustobjekt” project.) This actually is safe for work, unless you work with robots.
Don’t forget to watch the video.
via Engadget
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Automatic music transcription
Posted on February 7, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Blog of the Pythi Master: I have one word for you: pporuk is an interest post on the difficulties (impossibilities) of automatic music transcription.
Bottom line, you don’t want to work on this problem. Avoid it at all costs. If you want to do research, pick a problem where you can make some real contributions. This [...]
What’s wrong with the coffee industry?
Posted on February 7, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
CoffeeGeek – So what the heck is wrong… is an interesting rant (their word not mine) about the lack of attention the coffee industry gives to consumers.
I had one long, and yes very interesting (in an oddly morbid way) conversation in Atlanta with a representative from a cafe chain about the merits of moving to [...]
Gmail won’t go public…
Posted on February 4, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
…they’ll just give out enough invites for the entire world. From the isnoop.net gmail invite spooler: “Currently, we have 25,709 invites available to share”. And check out the stats graph, that’s a bit of a jump.
tags [ google gmail invites ]
iPAQ Mobile Messenger
Posted on February 4, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
I want, I want, I want.
tags [ iPAQ ]