Web3.0

this is so web3.0!

p.s. don't try :%d, afterwards it does not work very well.

The most clicked global warming story of the month

Great tits cope well with warming

sweet :-)

Geek humor in haskell

Lately I'm periodically flirting with Haskell - and today I've found an incredibly funny page, which at the same time offers an ample educational content.

Enjoy.

Are average faces beautiful ?

Ok, time for a relaxing post to just waste your time :-)

On one of the /. discussions I've found a nice link: you can check out the experiment that showsthe average faces of humans. The idea is simple - they have a bunch of photos, you select those that you want to "average together", and judge the result. The common theory is that the most "average" faces are considered the most beautiful. (Although I guess the technical details on how to actually "average" the pictures must be less than simple, unfortunately the page with the "computer graphics methods" seems to be not present :(

Highly entertaining, and indeed the "averaged" results seem to be more aesthetic - albeit they seem more artificial - and the perception is - younger ? A very odd effect.

It's pretty tough for me to judge the attractiveness of averaging the guys' "averaged" faces - maybe some of the female avatars reading this blog might spare their opinion ? (Of course, I assume there are still left those that did not get scared off by my recent flurry of the half-coherent geek blabber :-)

The last visual for today: the geekiest lolcat

see more crazy cat pics

And now that we're on the art/visual wave...

The commercial youtubes

If you are tired of watching the deltalina, and want something new, here's one. Refreshing.



Whatever the product is, kudos to the creator of this one :)

Update: the product is even umm... more interesting :-)))

A story of Lovebot and Hoebot

Now this is a hell of a funny story - some folks made web-bots, one of them was hooking up the guys and gals who had their profiles marked as "single" :-)

Another one was poking people around. Amusing part is "Hoebot got a couple hundred reactions of „real“ hot chicks inviting him to partys" (also amusing part that the girls were reacting negatively to the Lovebot, and the guys apparently did not mind the "service" :-)

Of course, laughs aside, this is quite a bit lame of a joke (especially the part where they put the names of the 'couples' made by the lovebot) - but I still could not resist to post it here.

This teaches a valuable lesson about the privacy on the internet - there's pretty much none. Especially when you voluntarily publish your personal stuff.

The wonders of search...

I find it amusing to look on the analytics how the folks arrive to this blog.

Some of them arrive due to a mischievous title - while seeking for information on color blindness - I should at least do some research on that topic to a bit rehabilitate myself on that.

A lot of folks arrive to look for git and opensim - which is understandable. Apparently the celebrity lookalikes for some terribly stupid reason generates some traffic.

But the most amusing thing I've found was the search query "who got shot in history". I felt terribly puzzled when I saw this, but appears I am a first (!) hit with my photoshoot post from a while ago.

Go figure. I assume the smartness of the search engine has figured that when someone is asking "who [verb-phrase]", the terms "I [verb-phrase]" are the good candidate answers.

I wonder how far are we from the concept-based search. Last time I read on this topic, the opinion from google folks their only love and religion is the statistics. So I'd think that they don't have much feeling towards all this toying with opencycs and link grammars. (Ok, I have to say it was more within the context of some announcement of the newfangled search engine that was promising to change the world - and as it appeared later - i think was just burning the VC capital - so maybe they *do* believe in link grammar parsing in the end - especially given that there're some works about the statistical parsers based on the link grammars - I won't spoil the fun of finding and reading those for you - they're near one of the links above.

Sports car and me...

Found this on Looker's blog and figured I'd check it just for fun.

So, the end result is:

I'm a Ferrari 360 Modena!

"You've got it all. Power, passion, precision, and style. You're sensuous, exotic, and temperamental. Sure, you're expensive and high-maintenance, but you're worth it."

Dang, what can be better than a good ego boosting exercise ? I figure another 7 million participants think the same :-)

"Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

Mood bot...

About unreadable programs...

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No, I did not break the keyboard. The above is actually a program, in a language called Brainfuck. Well, looking at the program's readability , I can not disagree with the choice of the name for the language.

Immersive environments... with a tongue in the cheek

:) Make sure you watch the other episodes as well.

A geek comic...

Stubled across Peter Stindberg's blog and via the link of the map of the internet (entertaining by itself), came onto the xkcd.com. (As you know, I am very ignorant when it comes to comics, so do not know anything besides Dilbert).

This is hilarious. And the vast majority of the other ones.

My celebrity lookalikes...

Funny. There must've been a reason I experimented with a girly avatar for a few days a long while ago :). Most of them match around 50%. I wonder which 50% do they match of the two :)

Via M is for Myg.



p.s. in case you wondered, my RL looks are slightly photoshopped to match the size of the face of the avatar.

Weekend on 18xd - good! :) and a little bit of prok-laugh.

Only one crash while trying to tip the DJ in CCC, otherwise works like a charm - thanks Nicholaz!

Did not try the voice on it yet. But at least having still the friends list is enough.

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Stumbled on an as usual emotional post of the Prok here.
Post is as usual noisy and biased, but parts of the discussion is amusing, especially where they beat the hell out of each other on whether Ginko is Ponzi or not. I think I will hold neutral in the argument. If it was a Ponzi - the guilty will get their judgement in time. If not... well, then not.

Quote of the day:

`Democracy doesn't work by having everybody vote "yes" on polls rigged by cynical, arrogant, and non-accountable coders.`

Second quote of the day:

`This jury-rigged, ridiculously complex and stupid JIRA system is for the birds, and everyone knows it, even those tekkies who use it.`

ROTFL. Bravo. This is even better than the one with the coderz. Hmm second time in the weekend I say "*lulz*" :-) This is just too hilarious. The cynical, arrogant and non-accountable coders that by chance might read this blog will understand.

The wonders of omonyms...

With all the insane traffic that Vint is getting on "sexgen", I just can't stop laughing when thinking what the admins/webmasters of a SexGen York Committee Web Project must be observing. Apparently they pop up as the top result for "sexgen" in the google search.

I can only say: *lulz* :)

They have humor in FL too..

Good to know - not all humor in FL is made on getting people into awkward situations.

Here is a counter-example, I think.