What happened in my birth year? Amazing People. Amazing People. 15 of the Strangest Deaths. If you were a child in the 90s, you'll have seen Anastasia, so you know who Rasputin was.
What you might not know is that this guy was just as hard to kill in real life as he was in the movie. Now, since the eyewitness accounts vary, we can never be absolutely certain as to what happened, but the commonly accepted story is this: worried about Rasputin's influence over Tsarina Alexandra, members of the extended Romanov family potted to off him using cyanide. However, after consuming the pastries and wine containing the poison (supposedly enough to kill five men), Rasputin was still kicking.
So they shot him and left him for dead in the living room. ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease! Mug Shots: Bots Scour Google Maps to Find Faces in the Land. We humans tend to see faces where they don’t actually exist.
Clouds, the moon, grilled cheese; it’s all a canvas for our imaginations. The psychological tendency to see meaningful images in vague visuals actually has a name—pareidolia—and it’s the basis for a mesmerizing new project. Berlin-based design studio Onformative created Google Faces , an algorithm-based system that searches Google Maps’ satellite images for landscapes that resemble the human face. The design team, made of up Cedric Kiefer and Julia Laub, stumbled on the idea after previous facial recognition projects kept generating false positives (detecting facial images where there are none).
“We asked ourselves, could a machine using an algorithm find the same faces in nature that a human would recognize?” To find out, the team created a two part system consisting of one computer running Google Maps and the other running a bot programmed with a facial recognition algorithm that simulates pareidolia. The Most Controversial Article In All Of English Wikipedia Is George W. Bush's. Brewing beneath the surface of every popular Wikipedia page is a minor war. Wikipedians bicker with each other in hidden "Talk" pages about word choice and bias and, if a debate gets particularly contentious, one editor may edit over another editor's work.
That, say the authors of a new study on Internet's most popular encyclopedia , is the best proxy for how controversial an article is. A group of researchers from Hungary, the UK and the U.S. determined the "controversiality" of a Wikipedia page "by focusing on 'reverts', i.e. when an editor undoes another editor’s edit completely and brings it to the version exactly the same as the version before the last version.
" Wikipedia's most controversial articles cover most of the subjects that engender controversy at the dinner table: religion, philosophy and politics. The results are pretty fascinating. The study includes some incredible graphics, a few of which are displayed below: Read the entire study here. Next Great Baker Star Gretel-Ann Fischer Closes Her Bakery, Blames TLC For Ruining Her Reputation. Baker Gretel-Ann Fischer who appeared on the TLC show "Next Great Baker" closed her financially troubled Vermont bakery on Saturday, citing the show's negative portrayal of her character as one reason. "I can never repair what [TLC] did to my reputation. " Fischer told the local television news station WCAX .
Postmates One-Hour Delivery Service Launches In New York. New Yorkers are accustomed to being able to get anything they want, whenever they want it. But a San Francisco startup has decided there's room for improvement when it comes to convenience in the Big Apple. Today, Postmates officially launched its one-hour delivery service for people living and working in the Flatiron District.
The app allows users to select from a list of featured restaurants and stores in their area, and connects them with one of 50 couriers the company is currently contracting with in the area. Though downloading the app is free, delivery fees start at $6.99. 'Virgin Hair' For Sale On Craigslist: NYC Man Sells 27 Inches Of His Own Hair For $600 (PHOTOS)
Hair today, gone tomorrow... Believe it or not, selling human hair online isn't all that uncommon. But when some random hipsterish artist-builder dude from NYC decides to hawk his locks on Craigslist , and supplements it with poetic descriptions and what look like mood-lighted Instagram glamour shots -- well, you've got some "jet-black, virgin" gold on your hands. And with the price of human hair being what it is, it might be prudent to grab that gold before it's shorn and gone (if you're into that). Compared to an offer of $1,000 for 24 to 26 inches of "caramel" brown hair on this hair-trading site (that's right, hair-trading site ), at $600 for 27 inches, it's kind of a bargain. For the uninitiated, "virgin hair" is a common industry term that refers to hair that hasn't been treated or dyed.
But that didn't deter this seller from vaunting his jet-black locks.