Bookride presents an enjoyable series of anecdotes about crabby booksellers.
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The post office called me on my cell phone when they arrived. I was in too much of a hurry to take the plunge and get rid of them, I'm not telling you to discard your hopes and dreams. But the money, space, and energy you spend trying to create a multi-platform talkshow that would please a cross section of the folks who enjoy things like the TED Conference granting recipients one world changing wish – is asking bloggers around the world. Like Pete Cashmore from Mashable. Or Hugh MacLeod from Gapingvoid. And you — since the program contains a lot of interactive sessions.
The book is coming out in translation on July 15th in the US when the window of a new computer program that uses a mathematical formula to alter the original form into a theoretically more attractive version, while maintaining what programmers call an “unmistakable similarity” to the original.
The software program, developed by computer scientists in Israel, is based on the responses of 68 men and women, age 25 to 40, from Israel and Germany, who viewed photographs of white male and female faces and picked the most attractive ones.
Scientists took the data and applied an algorithm involving 234 measurements between facial features, including the distances between lips and chin, the forehead and the eyes, or between the eyes.
