Google Maps now recognizes faces and blurs them so that you can’t see them. Fantastic technology but…
…why doesn’t it blur the faces in the adverts in these images? Does the recognition system need a body?
Monthly Archives: May 2008
SOLAR LILY PADS…
Someone wants to install Solar Lily Pads on the Clyde…
Inhabitat » SOLAR LILY PADS Proposed for Glasgow’s Clyde River
…have they been to Glasgow? They’ll install them on Wednesday and by Friday night they’ll be using them as targets when throwing things off the bridges!
It’s bread Jim but not as we know it…
“But for us French consumers, bread that lasts two months simply does not exist,”
One man’s terrorist is…
This madness needs to stop…
“Nelson Mandela and the ANC are on the US terrorist watchlist”
Everyone needs a hero (Part II)…
Jort asks the million dollar question…
May 6th, 2008 at 10:14
Thanks! Who do you want as an action figure?
So…
Erm…
(thinks…)
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris
….also known as Le Corbusier
Now he would make a good doll!
Joho and market bullying…
I’ve given up counting the number of times this has happened to me…
Joho the Blog » Market bullying
Seriously, it’s madness. I once clicked on a link on my Mac to buy office; I only wanted to know how much it would cost. I was whisked away to the Microsoft web site where they tried to install something and then tried to refer me to a partner site. I never did find out the price!
Project Management Lessons…
Large aircraft have to be the most complex things built by man; how difficult? This article in Flight International is a wonderful overview of how things can slowly slip out of control…
One year on: the story of the 787
Is it coincidence that the 787 is being build in the same city as Vista? Both projects tried to be radically different and in both cases, the companies learnt a lot of lessons.
Everyone needs a hero…
Do they notice the difference…
“The blind concession reduces the cost of your TV Licence by 50%. So a colour TV Licence will cost £69.75 and a black and white TV Licence will cost £23.50.”TV Licensing – Blind
Conversation is the opposite of war…
“…conversation is the opposite of war while people refusing to communicate is something to fear. In Jerusalem enraged members of an Orthodox community attack him before he can ask his first question. In Saudi Arabia students are marched out of the room when he asks what they have been taught about Israel.”