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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
In comments at the Apostropher's blog, Gaijin Biker mentions how cool Idée Inc.'s new image-searching technology is. And it is indeed very cool: try out a couple of the applications they are demoing on their labs page.
- Multicolr Search lets you scan their database of images (10 million pictures selected from Flickr) for pictures with particular combinations of colors.
 I don't see any application for this in my own life (then again I'm not a designer) but it does seem very cool and fun to play with.
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BYO Image lets you specify an image file and have Idée search its database for images that are similar. This seems just great, and maybe more complicated than the Multicolr application.
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Monday, December first, 2008
 From Dark Roasted Blend, a page of truly spectacular microscope photography. There are even images with visibly granular atoms, which I did not know was possible.* The pictures are selected from among the winners and honorable mentions of this year's BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, and other sources. (via Apostropher.)
 * Yep: you need a scanning tunneling microscope to do it. Atoms have been being photographed since before I was born.
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
 Some beautiful art at this Flicker set of images from the recent Urban Painting exhibition in Carugate, Italy. (via Wooster Collective)
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Hope everybody is having a pleasant time. For your Thanksgiving listening, Pet provides a funny monologue from Benny Rubin, and Heebie-Geebie provides a funny monologue from Arlo Guthrie.
 We're not having our Thanksgiving till tomorrow, to make it easier for Ellen's family to get out here from Long Island; today is going to be dedicated to making pie and watching movies. We're going into town to catch the matinée of Bolt, and then tonight after Sylvia goes to sleep Ellen and I are going to watch O Lucky Man! (Coincidental trivia: Malcolm McDowell is one of the voices in Bolt. Last night we watched the documentary O Lucky Malcolm! which is included on disc 2 of O Lucky Man! -- it was really nice listening to him talking about his career, and weird to realize I haven't watched any of his movies since Cat People.)
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
The squid Magnapinna has been photographed and filmed by a team from working from a Shell offshore oil rig. See the video and read more at National Geographic.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
Sr. Saramago é 86 anos.
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
 via the Wooster Collective, I've been looking at a couple of graphics in the last few days that put me in mind of Saramago's Tuesday post about immigration. The sculpture shown to the right is Jens Galschiot's image of a homeless man, which will inaugurate his Welcome Homeless program, displaying statues of homeless people in European capitals.
And in Tuscon, activists have been displaying cardboard cutout statues of the local right-wing sheriff and border patrol agent around town. This is pretty inspired.
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
 We went to the zoo and brought back pictures!
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
via The Wooster Collective comes news that artist Alëxone has launched his own web site, alexone.net. I had never heard of Alëxone before but am anxious to find out more. Beautiful images, strongly reminiscent of something but I'm not sure exactly what.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
 I endorse this message.
(Interesting: Joe = John, Jill = Ringo, Barack = Paul, Michelle = George.)
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