August 2008
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Watchbrieflynoted:
Whatever, all I know is that I can’t stop listening to this song by Francis and The Lights now that I’ve seen the video. The lighting, the Prince-like moves, the sound - it’s all amazing!
Besides having sex with men, liking this song is the gayest thing I’ve done today.
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The Professional Panhandling Plague →
But over the last several years, the urban resurgence has proved an irresistible draw to a new generation of spangers. And while New York City’s aggressive emphasis on quality-of-life policing under two successive mayors has kept them at bay, less vigilant cities have been overwhelmed. Indeed, panhandling is epidemic in many places—from cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Memphis,...
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Emo for Obama →
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Wale’s Mixtape about Nothing: DC’s...
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Can you guess where my accent is from? →
I got 32 points. It’s not easy. (via Neema)
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Confidence game: How impostors capture our trust... →
By studying people’s reactions to a range of artificially-generated faces, Oosterhof and Todorov were able to identify a set of features that seemed to engender trust. Working from those findings, they were able to create a continuum: faces with high inner eyebrows and pronounced cheekbones struck people as trustworthy, faces with low inner eyebrows and shallow cheekbones...
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Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness →
Given a new face, we extract a set of distances between a variety of facial feature locations, which define a point in a high-dimensional “face space”. We then search the face space for a nearby point with a higher predicted attractiveness rating. Once such a point is found, the corresponding facial distances are embedded in the plane and serve as a target to define a 2D warp field which maps...
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King Khan & the Shrines’ The Supreme...
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Metaform’s Standing on the Shoulders of...
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WatchChocolate, cheese, meat, and sugar release opiate-like substances. I don’t like Chocolate, and I’ll skip the sugar. But you’ll pry the meat and cheese from my cold, chubby, dead hands. The speaker recommends a vegan diet … not gonna happen for me any time soon. (via Pete)
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The Chameleon: The many lives of Frédéric Bourdin →
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“The works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for...”
– David Bales and Ted Orland
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The Girl in the Window (the Feral Child) →
The doctors and social workers had no way of knowing all that had happened to Danielle. But the scene at the house, along with Danielle’s almost comatose condition, led them to believe she had never been cared for beyond basic sustenance. Hard as it was to imagine, they doubted she had ever been taken out in the sun, sung to sleep, even hugged or held. She was fragile and beautiful, but...
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Bajofondo’s Mar Dulce. Argentine new...
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Shorts Crack the Code →
Now it appears that, after some stops and starts in recent seasons, the men of the white collar work force are marching into the office in shorts.
Clearly, I don’t understand fashion. However, I do appreciate that the guy on the right made sure to match his purse with his shorts. So cute!
A look from Dolce & Gabbana’s spring/summer 2009 men’s collection.