Cmon! Everybody does it. “I wonder what Google Image Search thinks looks like me?” These are my results, below, which notably include Barack Obama, an Avatar-ed Barack Obama, I think that’s Tom Cruise, some politicians, Jon Stewart, a crazy guy in a Master Chief helmet, some religious figures, and various footballers and military officers (the jacket flare can’t quite be compared to!), among others:
And there’s a fast and furious way of doing this with any web-located image (Facebook profiles anybody) of you (or anybody!) online: in Chrome, install the Search by Image extension; then edit the extension’s options to ‘Show [camera] when hovering over an image’ and it will then do exactly that, over ANY image (jpg, png, gif!? yup!). From there it’s cakewalk. And what’s extra crazy is that your search result is databased, so there’s a hypertext URI you can bookmark for your results! (I don’t know How In The Hell that works!)
So one of my personal philosophical dilemmas is sand. Not sand at the beach, but deserts. The thought of continental sand really bothers me, it’s something my mind can’t seem to resolve. It also plagues me, thinking that there are huge, vast tracks of land that we can’t do anything with. However all that sand in the desert might be useful after all, if one Abu Dhabi-based professor has his way, making bricks from bacteria that “cement” sand without heat:
I’m not saying it resolves my notions of continental sand, but maybe there’s a sustainable architecture that can at least put me at ease!
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IBM is 100 years young, and unlike some high-value gadget companies they’re actually responsible for a ton of the tech we use or pass by in our daily lives – with a centennial website about their “second century”.
And no, CNN, you’re wrong, Apple in fact did not “invent” the personal computer – that’s just their monthly allowance cheque to you talking.
office killer, turn any JPG into a Commodore-64-esque image at C64yourself:
these two characters will never cease to get old. Wasn’t this like 10 years ago? Cloud vs Sephiroth, with Aeris’s cure ability thrown in for good measure:
regarding this diagram of geek culture, I disagree (or rather dis-associate) mostly with Geek Idols, and relate mostly with Geek Obsessions – what does that say about my personal geekathon?
WHOAH! 99-number alpha-numeric storage! Thank god for Physicians, Lawyers and Stockbrokers buying these things way-back-when, so that eventually they could develop the real technology of the future: a phone inside a watch! Because, you know, talking into your wrist is soooo intuitive.
For real though I’m amazed no one else has pointed this out yet. But take a look at the Ubuntu logo below, and then the logo imprinted on Zuse’s forehead (played by Michael Sheen) in TRON:Legacy, and tell me they’re not very similar. One might be quick to compare the logo to that on Dr. Manhattan’s forehead, but I think that is wrong – his is clearly an electron swirling around a nucleus, whereas this logo is clearly more of a convergence, and related to the tron “disc” and thus any computer disc – for install, backup, or otherwise. Anyways its a good film – and Zuse’s character made me want to watch A Clockwork Orange again (the similarities overtly stolen).
File this one, without a doubt, under “geekathon”.
Two weeks ago I missed out on a general True Nerd trivia session, so when I heard their next round of questions was going to be Lord of the Rings-centric, I knew it would be something… special. I had no idea I’d win some pie! I joined Team Sea Cucumber and immediately avowed my weakness: I’m no Rings-trivia slouch, but I’m definitely no expert, either. I got told it didn’t matter, because one way or another, we were going to Eat Pie! Turns out Team Sea Cucumber has been bested by Team Treebeard for some time now, but after 4 incrementally-difficult rounds including topics like “Evil”, “Movies versus Books” and “Translate This” (not to mention a final “Asshole” bonus question each round), our teams stood gridlocked at 42 points each. A lightning round would decide the winner.
Sometimes a nerd’s esoteric knowledge frightens even me: each team’s captain took to answering 10 questions in 30 seconds – they don’t call it lightning round for nothing! After that, we still stood tied, with each team answering 9 of 10! Unbelievable that after 54 questions, and I mean TOUGH questions, these NerdNYC trivia-goers answered 51 questions correctly!
Super-nerdy post, I know, and if you’re so inclined they’re having a two-day game-a-thon, Recess, on January 15th and 16th in Manhattan. It’s a non-profit gathering of board gamers, wargamers and card gamers – here are photos from the 2009 Recess, and the nerd in me has already put this event into my new year’s calendar!
