I’m as big an animal lover as the next guy… but this is just… well… odd.
 | “Imagine: your dog, cat, or other pet in full military regalia. I make this fantasy a reality. Using the latest digital techniques, I combine a photo of your pet with the uniform and background of your choice.” |
Fantasy? You mean like: “I love a man in uniform, now lick my boots Sgt. Spot!”? Ewww!!!
Get your freak on at http://www.petsinuniform.com
Ginger Elvis says: “I taste better than fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches! Thank you very much!”
<crunch> Ginger Elvis’s head has left the building.
I was just e-mailed this by a co-worker (thanks Paul!): the World-Wide Media eXchange. It’s a Microsoft Research project gathering pictures from all over the world and arranging them into a map-driven interface. It’s a really cool way to browse pictures as well as a neat way to find pictures of places you’ve been or may be going. Here’s what the site has to say about itself:
The World-Wide Media eXchange (WWMX) is a centralized index of digital photos, where photos are tagged by the geographic location where they were shot. It’s an experimental research project run by the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research.
The project explores possibilities with digital photographs and geographic location. The location where a photo was taken provides clues about its semantic context and offers an intuitive way to index it, even in a very large collection. The combination is powerful, but still not supported well by either the photo-software or camera-hardware industries. We’re trying to establish a strong case for these features, and you can help us — try the downloads, and tell us about your experience:
. Your feedback can make a difference!
It’s free and cool, check it out.
Perhaps it was made with Swiss cheese, it’s hole-y! Hole-y! Get it? Holes in cheese? Sounds like holy? Anyone? C’mon, this is great stuff!
Update: eBay auction saved for my own little web time-capsule
The reason the World Wide Web is called the World Wide Web is because it’s filled with interconnected links, allowing you to move from site to site. Do you ever do that?
When I first started using the web, yes, I did click around from site to site, it was kind of neat. Now, when I want some information I go to a search engine (typically Google, but I’ve just installed the MSN toolbar, but I digress), type in a search and go directly to the info I want. I do very little “browsing” when on the web. Two reasons:
The thing that has brought back interest in web surfing for me is the concept of the blog sphere. A blog sphere is a subset of a subset of the web; it’s the blogs (one subset) I read (another sub set). This narrowing of scope has made it much easier to navigate the web in an ad hoc fashion as I am no longer presented with the overwhelming scope of the web… I’m presented with the web as seen by people I think are interesting (who find interesting links, produce interesting content or are, simply, interesting).
All day today I’ve been listening to a new, free album I downloaded from Mercedes Benz (yes, the auto manufacturer). Seeing as you don’t expect go looking for music on a car manufacturer’s site and I don’t own a Mercedes (or a Chrysler for that matter) it’s unlikely I would have happened upon this site on my own. I found it because Paul left a comment on my blog, and he entered the URL for his blog. Reading his blog I found the info on the Benz free music download.
Viewed as a whole, the web is full of a bunch of random crap. Viewed through the filter of the people with whom I share a connection it becomes a whole lot more interesting.
Sure… jackhammers… add it to the list lady. (click for big)
Edit 10/7/2004: Snopes picked up the story.
For a while now I’ve been wanting to get more of my pictures on line to share with friends and family. Here are the sites I’ve dug up to date. Any suggestions or comments?
My requirements:
Nice to have: per image comments.
Some photo hosting sites:
Some photo review sites (they tend to be geared to artists who want to get feedback, some only allow you to upload one image per day). Not quite what I need.
With the release of the Star Wars DVDs last week everyone has the classic films on the brain. And what goes better with classic films than classic rock?
Mad props to the_man361… whoever you are.
Okay, so perhaps they don’t have a show in the works, but I’d certainly TiVo it if they did. Ah… the wonderful vision of underwear-clad spammers being dragged across their front lawns by big Texas bounty hunters… a happy thought.
Spammer bounties win some backing
WASHINGTON – The Federal Trade Commission yesterday gave limited endorsement to offering cash rewards to people who help track down e-mail spammers, suggesting that such bounties might work but in fewer circumstances than had been pushed by some anti-spam activists.
Visit MSNBC for the full article: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6027113/
Ah, the joy of business class! On the way back from Korea (more on that later) Paula and I were able to upgrade to business class. When you’re dealing with a flight from Japan to San Francisco this is a life saver. My flight left Tokyo around 10am on Wednesday and arrived in California at around 10am on Wednesday. I watched Shrek 2 while eating dinner then took a Tylenol PM & a melatonin and slept for about 5 hours. After a 2hr nap Wednesday afternoon my jetlag is gone (but don’t tell my boss, I may still get some slacker mileage out of this 
). Tylenol PM + 3mg of melatonin, my cure for jetlag, look into it.
Here are some other links to help you with your travel:
