Articles Archive for July 2007
Digital Identity »
The thinly veiled phishing scam, WikiYou.com [LINK] claims to be the "the unauthorized biography of every person on earth."
Sorry, then why does it ask for a Zip Code on the main page and make it mandatory??? do you think America is the Earth? Do you think everyone on earth has a zip code?
That’s like saying baseball has a "World Series" when only US teams participate.
Or like saying the NBA champs are the "World Champions". Ehh, call me old-fashioned but you didn’t play any other countries!!!
WikiYou relies on a …
General Computing »
Who died and said search always had to be by keyword?
I want to be able to search by a file, a digital asset. I’d like the content to be analyzed and have people give me back similar content.
Say a portion of an MP3, and find similar MP3s. Similar how? Maybe songs with the same beat. Or songs with a similar set of instruments etc.
How about images. I’d like to upload an image and find images that look similar. Not like searching for a dog and getting pictures of …
Cool & Future Tech »
My old buddy Drier revealed that by mucking with the URL manually you can increase the zoom on certain Google images.
Here’s Elephants in Africa, you can see the blades of grass [LINK]
Here’s Goats standing around a well [LINK].
Scary/amazing stuff.
Cool & Future Tech »
Don’t look now, the entire planet’s being watched. Try each of the following links, each one starts from "space". Keep zooming in until you can’t go any further.
[LINK], [LINK], [LINK]
And think about this one next time you’re laying on the beach looking up at the sky [LINK].