"Sun Tattoo is a soft stencil which can be used for making the tattoo pattern on the skin by sunshine. It’s better to use it with sunless tanning cream." ~~~~ ehhhhhhh o_O
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from Bookmarklet
So when you get skin cancer, it's in a pretty shape? Mmhmm....
- Will Higgins™
Will: Melanoma shaped flowers. Beautiful.
- Manuel Mas
Did anyone else notice that is not a before and after pic? Also, my mom and I totally thought of this on a small scale, like temporary tattoo kinda things.
- <3Heather<3
@Geoff Sometimes I have an overwhelming compulsion to vote up comments (too much StackOverflow) ... Couch ... <chuckle>
- Tom Horn
My brothers and I tried sun stenciling ourselves when we were kids. Despite our pale Irish skin cancer-prone complexions.
- Spidra Webster
If you're someone who tans well and you can keep the paper close to your skin, it turns out well. If you're like me and go directly from pale to pink, which then fades to more freckles, not so much.
- Spidra Webster
No way it would turn out that well defined.
- Brad Connell
"As horrific as the gulf environmental catastrophe is, an even more intractable and cataclysmic disaster may be looming. The yet unknowable costs associated with clean-up, litigation and compensation damages due to arguably the world’s worst environmental tragedy, may be in the process of triggering a credit event by British Petroleum (BP) that will be equally devastating to global over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. The potential contagion may eventually show that Lehman Bros. and Bear Stearns were simply early warning signals of the devastation lurking and continuing to grow unchecked in the $615T OTC Derivatives market. What is yet unknowable is what the reality is of BP’s off-balance sheet obligations and leverage positions. How many Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) is it operating? Remember, during the Enron debacle Andrew Fastow, the Enron CFO, asserted in testimony nearly 10 years ago that GE had 2500 such entities already in existence. BP has even more physical assets than...
more...
- Morton Fox
from Bookmarklet
The little bit I typed on an ipad in the Apple store, I really liked it. Course, I've been typing on an iPhone now for three years. With my index finger, which everyone says is the slow way. 'everyone' is my children.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
from iPhone
Shouldn't be a difference. But thumbing actual keys is just way easier.
- Rah-PM 2012
from Android
Whenever I type on my touchscreen it looks like I'm typing drunk. Even more so when I am typing drunk, cos then I don't bother going back to fix the typos made by my thumb sliding and hitting the wrong letter.
- Penguin
from fftogo
bu şarkıyı ilk duyduğumda şarkıyı söyleyenin kadın olduğunu sanmıştım sonra klibini izleyince gördüm ki adam söylüyormuş :) olsun her şekilde seveceğim bir şarkıdır..
- Angel Eyes
"I love plain fried rice vermicelli. More commonly known as “bee hoon” or “bihun” (米粉) by the locals, these thin noodles made from rice. Plain fried bee hoon is one of the staples (along with rice and other fried noodles) that you can choose from when you order food at “economical bee hoon” or vegetarian food stalls in Singapore. Even though the bee hoon is so-called plain, they taste nice on its own due to the soy seasonings. But one usually order other ‘liao‘ (ingredients) to go with the bee hoon. This is also great party food as it is filling and complement all the other finger foods that you have prepared, plus the noodles can be left be left on the table for a few hours without becoming soggy."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
best had with a some vinegared green chillies and maybe with pieces of fried pork ( char shiew)
- viki saigal
The American dream sounds kind of dead if she has to work two jobs but has a great product.
- MarkCarras
There may be a lot of that going around. I am a mother of five, grandmother of seven, homeschooled three of my children, and started college at 57 after having been a stay at home mom for close to 30 years. Now at 62, I am on the verge of completing a lifelong dream of a bachelor's degree, working at a job that I truly love for a surgical oncologist.
- Sally Hodges
Liked for Sally's comment. Congratulations and way to go for going after your dream!
- vicster
Can I get one for the body as well as the face?
- Dion Almaer
Very interesting. Hope they post the download link soon so that we can all play with it.
- Brady Brim-DeForest
It seems as if the main problem with most people in the examples shown is their forehead is too short or too narrow. Wonder if there's a subtle clue that big brains are beautiful there! :)
- Lindsay
@Jason - that's an interesting concept. Would you be more likely to trust the girl on the left or right? Would you be more likely to talk to either one of them at a party (or more intimidated by either one?).
- Lindsay
Notice that for all the women they soften the jaw, while squaring it for men. Everyone also gets a slightly thinner face and upturned almost smiling lips.
- FFing Enigma
@SB yeah and the forehead adjustment... almost like there is a triangle with the forehead at the point and they flip it so the chin is the bottom of the triangle... weird.
- Lindsay
They are different women! Blame Paul! : )
- Erhan Erdoğan
Lindsay: whenever sketching generic faces, the face starts as an inverted triangle and the eyes appear a third of the way down from the top of the forehead; lips and nose appear below and above (respectively) a line 1/3 up from the chin. Looks like these pictures are rearranged to meet that particular school of drawing.
- FFing Enigma
That is interesting yet odd. Seems that the faces are slendered with the software.
- Jim Goldstein
from twhirl
I wonder what would come out of applying their algorithms to face of black or asian person? Different countries have different concepts of beauty.
- arty
This technology should be made available in eye glasses, just imagine how much better your work day can be!
- Claude Betancourt
Paul - Think you should definitely add the option. "Click here to be beautiful without the expense of plastic surgery! .... and you may even get more 'Likey's" :)"
- Charlie Anzman
Some of the stuff coming out of Siggraph this year is really freaky. How about combining this with the automatic video editing stuff? ;)
- Joe Beda
without a doubt amazing. It's incredible how subtle the changes are yet massive difference.
- Zee.
Huh, that's pretty crazy. Creepy, but cool. :)
- felix
I haven't read the paper, but I wonder if it adapts to different notions of "attractive" (that changes from culture to culture ...)
- Rui Pires
+1 @Claude I was thinking the same thing! Incorporate this software in wearable monitor glasses, and the whole world would be beautiful! I'll bet we can look for these on the shelves in the U.S. just before November. Social media and reality enhancement software have put Winston Smith out of a job.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
do i sense another manga-style meme starting?
- anna sauce
So, if it turns me into Gilbert Godfried... what does that mean?
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
You know, if these guys had gotten together with the realtime video+photo enhancement folks and approached the Beijing Olympic Comittee then that singing girl in the opening ceremonies might not have had to been replaced with a body double. (Yeah, I just brought three of this week's biggest memes together. I'll be here all week.)
- Kevin Fox
The artist proportions were laid out by the Greeks as the perfect human, that's not being used here. This beautification engine, I think, builds on top of a previous study where some students tried to mathematically identify attractiveness. They had participants rate the attractiveness of head shots from yearbooks. What they found was there was a high correlation b/w the geometrically "average" face and high attraction. That "average" is based on the proportions of the di
- xero
stances between the individual elements of the face and their relative sizes. IIRC the software adjusts elements so they statistically/geometrically complement each other. It's not actually working toward a golden set of proportions, but a set of proportions appropriate for the individual as defined by the masses. I wouldn't think of it as "facial discrimination" so much as "deviation from ones potential".
- xero
I'm waiting for the first Facebook application that automatically enhances your profile picture like this. Every social network should run this on the avatars. Beautiful people!
- Benedikt Koehler
Can you imagine the controversy if dating sites got a hold of this?
- xero
@paul automatically apply it to all profile photos, huh? are you sure you ready for results? check my picture - try to see wonderful cossacks writing infamous letter to Turkish Sultan :)
- A. T.
I wonder if they'll turn Mickey Mouse into Mighty Mouse
- Dave Q
this will have a lot of practical applications to create a (virtual) world of beautiful (or more acceptable facially) people.
- Apostolos Tsompanopoulos
Just a complicated high tech implementation of beer goggles.
- Hayes Haugen
This is what came up as the top Google hit for paul buchheit friendfeed.
- Spidra Webster
I just read the first comment and may I ask why we should apply it automatically to all profile pictures??? Who are we gonna kid that way?!
- ambidextrous
Did it feel the same as any other car? :-)
- Piaw Na
No, it is significantly lower, so you feel like you are sitting on the ground. The acceleration is really rapid. Also, as soon as you let your foot off the gas pedal, the car brakes for you. But the biggest difference was that other drivers continually looked over at us and revved their engines. Many of them also passed us unnecessarily.
- niniane
The short video made its way around China’s Web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms. It opens with a middle-aged Asian woman dressed in a leopard-print blouse, knee-length black skirt, stockings and silver stilettos standing next to a riverbank. She smiles, holding a small brown and white kitten in her hands. She gently places the cat on the tiled pavement and proceeds to stomp it to death with the sharp point of her high heel.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing — have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results.
- Mitchell Tsai
Versions of the human-flesh search have taken place in other countries. In the United States in 2006, one online search singled out a woman who found a cellphone in a New York City taxi and started to use it as her own, rebuffing requests from the phone’s rightful owner to return it. In South Korea in 2005, Internet users identified and shamed a young woman who was caught on video refusing to clean up after her dog on a Seoul subway car.
- Mitchell Tsai
The prevailing narrative in the West about the Chinese Internet is the story of censorship — Google’s threatened withdrawal from China being only the latest episode. But the reality is that in China, as in the United States, most Internet users are far more interested in finding jobs, dates and porn than in engaging in political discourse. “For our generation, the post-’80s generation, I don’t feel like censorship is a critical issue on the Internet,”
- Mitchell Tsai
Privacy is really different for the Chinese. In business or dating, assume that the other person has done a background investigation on you & your family (Which is why it's bad form to "brag" about what you do. That assumes the other side is too incompetent to have done the research.) When my mom hands me pictures of women, the backside has their education, work backgrounds, etc...
- Mitchell Tsai
I have no idea how I never appear in these screenshots. I'm going to go kill myself. BRB.
- Akiva
I'm surprised that rooms (which may be public or private), as well as Personal, Professional, and My Discussions feeds, weren't included in this list.
- Ruchira S. Datta
My Discussions is covered within point number 4. Rooms are good, but if I had to choose between rooms and lists, I'd choose lists.
- John E. Bredehoft