The Occasional Solipsist

I think that its shit like this that my wife talks about when she says that high technology is being poorly used.

She often laments that modern technology seems to be doing little these days to actually better society and more to find new and innovative ways to get consumers to consume.

Although I do argue with her, I know in a fundamental way that she's right. But we are married, so I am obligated to take the opposing viewpoint on the subject of every conversation just to keep things fresh. You know what I mean.

But even though as a society we're no closer to a cure for cancer, at least we can buy 36 different medications to increase metabolism to generate weight loss and thereby skip the whole eating healthy thing. And if I want to chase away restless leg syndrome (think I'm making that one up?), well there's a pill for that too. Man, can a guy get depressed thinking about things like this.

However. To the pointmobile!

I came across a post on The Dog's Breakfast tonight (lovely, lovely lady, btw) that showcased a beta site that uses facial recognition technology to compare a user uploaded image to digital images of celebrities.

Of course, I was compelled to try it out.

And what celebrities do I look like? First, John Denver, pictured above. Maybe its the hair.

Other celebrities that came up, but with lower matching percentages, were Arthur Ashe, Andrei Sakharov, Andre Agassi, and Matthew Fox.

Uh-huh.

I'm thinking this is one technology that could use a little tweaking.

Check it out yourself here.

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