Are you a verbose social media enthusiast? Do you feel constrained and suffocated by Twitter's 140-character maximum? Do you ever start a tweet, only to be rejected by its imposing character maximum, shake your fists to the Twitter gods while shouting "Eff it! Who needs Twitter? I don't!"...
Continue readingI have always had a fascination with the Hope Diamond - not because I like jewels (I don't), but for the gruesome deaths and bad luck in its history. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Harry Winston's donation of the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution, the infamous diamond will be reset into a different necklace design for the first time in over half a century...
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Continue readingThose crazy folks at the MIT Media Lab have created a web application called Personas which maps out your online persona in the form of a stacked bar chart. WHAT IS PERSONAS?Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you. HOW DOES IT WORK?Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive...
Continue readingPerhaps there is something wrong with me, but I think it's fascinating that some people are color-blind. Can you see the number in this Ishihara color vision test plate? I've always wondered how different people perceive color - even those with normal vision. Taking this into consideration, a color-blind person would be a treat for me. I want to study them, analyze them, and have one-on-one color study discussions with them. It's horrible, I know, but doesn't a small part of everyone delve into morbid curiosities such as these? Now, with the help of internet technology, I can now have a glimpse into the intriguing world of color blindness. This Vision Simulator not only lets you see how different images look to those with...
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