A frustrating part of Internet research is link rot. When sites disappear off the net, so seemingly does the information they contained and you hit a wall: a 404 error. These “page not found” messages tell you, but more importantly notify your web browser, that the data you’re seeking doesn’t exist. And in 2005, Frank [...]
In Part One I wrote about Polar Rose, a Firefox toolbar that performs facial recognition on photos loaded in your browser. Polar Rose programmatically creates associations between individual’s faces that you could have easily overlooked, and opens new possibilities for how we organize and search digital photographs. Equally as important, Polar Rose is free, built [...]
The photograph above is marked up by Polar Rose, a Firefox toolbar that does facial recognition on photos loaded in your browser. Polar Rose automatically detected three faces in the photograph based upon patterns and compared the images to a database of faces stored on their servers. Had someone already tagged a particular [...]
Limerick in the NY Times
At Cliopatria, Ralph Luker shared a terrific review by Patricia Limerick of Jean Pfaelzer’s book that appeared in Sunday’s NY Times. Patricia’s work has been critical in establishing the New Western History scholarship that my criticisms of history in the Oregon Trail computer game are based upon.
Anonymous Blogging
For those [...]
Netscape has released the first beta of Navigator 9 – it’s great. It uses the codebase of Firefox 2 – meaning it supports all Firefox add-ons. Yes, Zotero works in Navigator 9! OK – now I’ve got your attention. It’s incredibly fast, and has “social” features including a rating system that’s very [...]