9835.pdf (application/pdf Object) Strange Maps: Blonde Map of Europe. This is the kind of map a guy would draw up if he had way too much time on his hands.
Blonde Map of Europe / © Eupedia The Blonde Map of Europe charts out the regions on the Continent according to the frequency of fair hair in the population. Norway, Sweden and Finland — no surprises there, really – have the highest percentages of light haired people at nearly 80 percent. The map obviously hasn’t factored in recent immigration from Africa, and the movement of Europeans themselves across the continent.
And what of the type of blonde that comes out of a bottle? Word Lens iPhone App - New Translation iPhone App Review. Here's something you can't say about many apps: It will change the way you look at the world.
The new Word Lens does just that. Point the phone's camera at a sign, a book, or any written words in a foreign language, and the text will appear in English on the phone's screen—in the same font, in the same position, and even on the same background it has in the real world. The promotional video (below) shows it in action, translating a multitude of signs in real time.
We experimented on book covers in PM's office and, frankly, it blew our minds. The app launched December 16, with Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish packages for $4.99 each. Other apps, like Google Goggles, can scan and translate text. To read a sign in the real world, Good says, the phone needs to make sense of its layout—the colors, the fonts, the background and where they are in space.
"The hardest part is to read the letters and see how they are," he says. Translation is notoriously hard for computers. Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook. Why can't privacy and connectedness go hand-in-hand?
That's the question being raised by those behind the new Diaspora project, an ambitious undertaking to build an "anti-Facebook" - that is, a private, open source social network that puts you back in control of your personal data. Envisioned by four NYU computer science students, the Diaspora project would replace today's centralized social web (yes, they mean you, Facebook) with a decentralized one, while still offering something that's convenient and easy for anyone to use. According to the project's homepage, the students, Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, and Ilya Zhitomirskiy, "bonded over many late nights building a Makerbot," (to you non-geeks, that's a type of robot) and they "started discussing what a distributed social network would look like. " The end result of those discussions was the idea for Diaspora. So they stopped talking about it and started building. What is a Decentralized Social Network?
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