Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces (Stephen Shankland/Underexposed) (8)
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Stephen Shankland / Underexposed: Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces — Google wants to help you put a name to that face. — With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon PDT Tuesday, Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects.
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Oudi Antebi said:
I tried it. it does a good job but still too much manual work to get your entire albums organized
Meet Chrome, Google's Windows Killer (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch) (3)
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Meet Chrome, Google's Windows Killer — Make no mistake. The cute comic book and the touchy-feely talk about user experience is little more than a coat of paint on top of a monumental hatred of Microsoft. — Chrome, the Webkit-based Google browser that launches tomorrow at Google.com/chrome …
Silly pencil pushers! You can't KILL Physics! What's that? Oh, physics *research*. You've won this round! (3)
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RIP Bell Labs "After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab."
ABC News: ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors (16)
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ABC News: ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors ABC News has a disturbing report (complete with a video of the incident) where one of their producers, Asa Eslocker, was arrested on a public street while attempting to take pictures of Democratic Senators leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver.An as of yet unnamed Denver police sergeant literally pushes Eslocker into the street and then has him ...
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Atherton said:
Police harassment of media photographers makes an appearance at the DNC in Denver.
McCain's D&D character stats (23)
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With the McCain campaign smearing Dungeons and Dragons players, Wired's Threat Level blog is asking its readers to come up with character descriptions or Monster Manual blurbs for McCain: 1st Level Fighter / 14th Level Aristocrat by (+5, Troll) His stat block is STR 12, INT 9, WIS 9, DEX 9, CON 10, CHR 14, adjusting for age. His Bluff skill is maxed, but he has just one rank in Knowledge (Religion) and no ranks ...
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Wa said:
WTF? You are a troll Mr. McCain.
http://flickr.com/photos/brittnybadger/sets/72157606728017373/detail/ (17)
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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.
JECO shared as favorite Rhapsody in Pepsi Blue? (2)
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Yes, it's an advertisement, but this commercial for United Airlines is really extraordinary. (Link goes directly to a .mov file. If you don't want to open it directly, go here and click on "New Work", then "TV".) I know many of you don't usually like ads in your Metafilter, but I think this one is really special. The agency responsible is a Minneapolis-based start-up called Barrie D'Rozario Murphy and this is apparently one of their ...
No pictures, please. (3)
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Photographer Thomas Hawk may or may not have run afoul of SFMOMA's photo policy and was forcibly ejected from the museum by its Director of Visitor Services. Hawk blogged the incident extensively, encouraging readers to publicize his grievance through social networking. Now two conversations are going on: how photographers' rights are restricted in an age of paranoid security, and whether what some call online character assassination by someone influential is okay.
