Today is a good day…to learn Klingon.
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#April Fools #language #Star Trek
Videos
What’s better at facial recognition, Facebook or your brain?
Ever wonder how your brain can recognize and remember so many faces? Ever wonder how we train computers to do the same? Vanessa from BrainCraft looks the science of recognizing faces square in the… face?
Bad: It joins in that annoying way that many things about relatively-unusual conditions have of assuming their audience doesn’t contain anyone who experiences it (a falsely-inclusive “we” to refer to “normal” people).
Good: Finally a non-proso who’s noticed that facial recognition technology cries out to be used in assistive tech. (I swear to god, it’s like the people in charge of this sort of thing are deliberately trying to come up with every possible use for artificial facial recognition except the obvious one.)
(Come on, The Future, you’ve been a good home to me. You’ve given me those lovely photographs of Martian desert, full of colour and detail, the next-best thing to being there. You’ve given me multiple pieces of tech that are literally out of Star Trek. Give me a glasses-mounted HUD that flags passing acquaintances with their names. I know you can do it. Google Glass has been dancing around the edge for, what, a year now? I’d prefer an attachment to the glasses I already have, but as long as I can get them in prescription and they cost less than, oh, say twice as much as regular prescription glasses, I’ll settle for buying a new pair. Please, let me have this.)
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#prosopagnosia #(cell phones and e-readers) #(and I suspect you could turn a smart-watch into something very like a combadge without much tinkering) #the power of science #with power comes responsibility #and that responsibility takes many forms
Matt Smith’s home-made Doctor Who episode
oMFG THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING EVER
please, please, please, WATCH THIS VIDEO
you’re welcome
p.s. I have watched 3 times in a row now and i don’t think i’ll ever stop
professionals
And yet, there are people who don’t like Matt Smith.
Those people are clearly wrong.
SMIFF THO
I can’t Moffat, I haven’t watched Doctor Who since Pandorica (and I only got past Flesh and Stone from a sense of obligation and the promise of Rory eps), but MATT SMIFF’S FACE THO. In like three seconds the first time I saw his face in this vid, I remembered everything about why I was a member of the Give Matt Smith A Chance club before it was cool and why I was SO UTTERLY FUCKING RIGHT. Guy-who-plays-Craig is rolling on the floor giggling, and then Smiff is —-
—- BAM. Doctor.
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#Doctor Who #this is great #I had to pause a couple times so my laughter wouldn’t drown them out
Chris Hadfield and students from coast-to-coast fill the sky with music
For his last downlink before returning to Earth, CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield performed I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing) with hundreds of students at the Ontario Science Centre and nearly a million people, mostly students from coast-to-coast Canada and around the world, performing the song in unison from their location.
I.S.S. is a song co-written by Hadfield and the Barenaked Ladies’ front man Ed Robertson.
Credit: CSA
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#music #the power of science #the brightest star in our sky #now I understand what choking-up-with-happiness means
Wicked Girls, Seanan McGuire
Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane,
Susan and Lucy, we’re calling your names,
All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain
And chose to go back on the shelf.
Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree
You have to break rules if you want to break free.
So do as you like — we’re determined to be
Wicked girls saving ourselves.
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#Seanan McGuire #music #I wouldn’t call it *full* lyrics #she sings it a little differently every time #this isn’t the version I usually hear #but it’s good too
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#Florence and the Machine #Hassan Ramzy #I like the sound of the original better #but I can make out more of the words in this version
Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.
Seriously. Faith in humanity has just hit %100.
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#at first I didn’t realise how awesome this was going to be #and then there was that moment a few seconds in #when I figured out what was going to happen #Sesame Street #Patrick Stewart #awesome #my childhood #(I don’t know if I ever saw this particular bit during my childhood but close enough)
I LIVE LIFE ON TUMBLR:
A cover of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire, but with 204% more internetz.
Tried to get most fandoms in there but argh there are so many *flails* *dies*
LYRICS:
Fangirl squeals, Doctor Who, reblog is all I do,
watching Sherlock, Reichenfeels, we need Season Three.Gorgeous graphics, keyboard smashing, signal boosts and Mako-bashing,
Bryke is trolling, Moffat’s trolling, perfect OTP,Social justice, F-bombs, food porn, om nom nom,
Mean Girls, “The Life and Times,” and lawnmowers that can fly,Please stop tagging your hate, this fic never updates,
all my feels, oh my Godtiss, holy shit I’m gonna cry!I live life on Tumblr
Yeah, I went through hell
to get this URL
cause I live life on Tumblr
Let me love you, bby,
so call me maybe?Hiddlestoners, Cumberbabes, who cares if they’re twice our age?
Shipping schism, activism, Stewart and Colbert.Real talk, spam? block, Steve and Tony, Johnlock
and on art blogs, random pics of hair.Yes this, now kiss, all my feelings in a gif,
Princess Kuzco, SOPA ban, lost ability to can,Fanart, safe for work? Blatant porn, don’t look
Fluffy fics, fanmix, what the hell is Facebook?I live life on Tumblr
Yeah, I went through hell
to get this URL
cause I live life on Tumblr
Let me love you, bby,
so call me maybe?Rage toons, screAMING YELL, Merthur and Destiel,
Ruined life, (you tool,) learned more from my dash than school.Goodbye MegaUpload, reblog this potato!
Cat pics are heaven-sent, “fuck you” is a compliment.Superwholock, John Green, badass Katniss Everdeen,
Douche anons, torrent host, this has been a text post,Bridesmaids, irony, overuse of “literally”
GPOY, lol nope, how’d this get ten thousand notes?!I live life on Tumblr
Yeah, I went through hell
to get this URL
cause I live life on Tumblr
Let me love you, bby,
so call me maybe?Ovaries long-gone, screw M. Night Shyamalan,
Askbox limits suck, I’ll tell you ‘bout Homestuck.Game of Thrones, out of spite, killed off everyone you liked –
Amurrica is so free, Post-Potter MiserySepia? Hipster found! Existential quotes abound,
Missing E., can’t unsee, ehehehe LOKI’D!I live life on Tumblr
Yeah, I went through hell
to get this URL
cause I live life on Tumblr
Let me love you, bby,
so call me maybe?All my creys, typeface and vids I do not understand
Wow rUDE, spONGEBOB sTOP, too bad I can’t PhotoshopCanon/fanon, what the hey, think I’ll ship it anyway,
Be right back I’m tearbending, why is Finchel still a thing? ((sorry, authorial bias showing, heh))Special snowflakes, Yu-Gi-Oh, da da dadadada da da AFRO,
Germany, Italy, ship them like Dramione.No regret, that I met, strangers on the internet
thanks to Rule 34, I can’t even anymore!I live life on Tumblr
Yeah, I went through hell
to get this URL
cause I live life on Tumblr
Let me love you, bby,
so call me maybe?Hey, I just met you… and this is crazy. But here’s my number, so call me maybe?
Marry me, please?
I’ll tell you ‘bout homestuck XD
omfg this is perfect.
this wins the internet
everyone else go home
How can I go home, when I’m ALREADY HERE?
and yeah, WHY IS THERE NO DOWNLOAD LINK!?!
Oh my god. Press the fucking play button. Best post ever.
All rise for the national anthem of Tumblr.
fucking perfect
yes yes yes please play while I blog the night away
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#music #awesome
Transcript coming soon.
In which PM doesn’t have a hat, sings badly, and challenges Leon to an underwear dance.
Just wanted to say that you have inspired me. I will get the copy of Portal I obtained from Free Portal Week playable if I have to hook up a second monitor and turn it on its side.
(Now to go ask resident computer expert Dad if this is feasible with stuff currently lying around the house.)
P.S. If it were me, I’d have taken a piece of paper from a grocery flyer, taped it into a cylinder or maybe cone, and worn that. Just saying.
Edit: I figured it out. My screen is so ridiculously wide it mistook the width for the height and vice versa. I corrected it, and the problem’s fixed. No second monitor required! Let’s see if I run into any more problems…
(Source: http://multiplevoices.tumblr.com/)
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#reply via reblog #portal #multiplevoices
Brinens and Things 