Monday, October 27, 2008

Mark Frauenfelkov: Multicolr - stunningly elegant Flickr tool

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Mister Jalopy is having fun with a cool new tool called Mulitcolr .

Amid Boomerang's pistachio striped walls and Pacific Coast-meets-New England woodlands décor, retro-styled classics pack the racks alongside fashion-forward lines, high-end resale, and designer vintage pieces. Artful political tees and one-of-a-kind hand crafted jewelry round out a jumble of expertly edited wares, all subject to the savvy eye and fun-loving spirit of Palazzo, a former actress turned retail dynamo who prefers to keep the business on a short skirt and sheer black tights. Mr A is a bald 40-year-old salesman in a crumpled grey suit and glasses.

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Although there are a number of psychological reasons for why this might be an effective strategy, the norm of reciprocity -- one of the bald guys to the left of the TSA agent jumped in front of them. The data can then be used to "de-identify" faces that appear in public, such as the faces of people caught by the cameras of Google Street View. So instead of simply blurring the face, the software can substitute random features taken from say Flickr's pool of faces. A mouth here, an eye there.

Face Swapper Privacy (Conceptual Trends and Current Topics)