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Damn Cool Pics

Damn Cool Pics


Charlie Chaplin’s Time Traveler

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:56 AM PDT

This short clip is from the DVD which includes behind the scenes in Charlie Chaplin's film 'The Circus'. Attending the premiere at Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA - the scene shows a large woman (or man), dressed in black and a hat, talking into something that only be described as a mobile phone device or possibly a walkie-talkie. Remember this is from 1928.


40 Celebrities Who Are Republicans

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:22 AM PDT

40 celebrities who are Republicans according to the Federal Election Commission, or known conservatives.

1. Drew Carey


2. Don King


3. Adam Sandler


4. Ben Stein


5. Bo Derek


6. Dean Cain


7. Gloria Estefan


8. Heather Locklear


9. Rick Schroder


10. James Earl Jones


11. Karl Malone


12. LL Cool J


13. Nick Lachey


14. Patricia Heaton


15. Pat Sajak


16. Rachel Hunter


17. Robert Duvall


18. The Rock


19. Sammy Hagar


20. Sarah Michelle Gellar


21. Scott Baio


22. 50 Cent


23. Alice Cooper


24. Mary Lou Retton


25. Jon Voight


26. Jessica Simpson


27. Shannen Doherty


28. Stephen Baldwin


29. Susan Lucci


30. Sylvester Stallone


31. Meat Loaf


32. Tom Selleck


33. Tony Danza


34. Wayne Newton


35. Bruce Willis


36. Johnny Ramone


37. Chuck Norris


38. Kelsey Grammer


39. Clint Eastwood


40. Mel Gibson


Interesting Political Photos of All Time

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:07 AM PDT

Politics is one of the most popular topics in our time and there is one thing about politicians to which everybody might agree: sometimes they are really funny!

George Bush


Vladimir Putin


Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy


Queen Elizabeth II


Angela Merkel


George Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy


Boris Yeltsin


Bill Clinton


Putin's comments


Pope John meets Bush


Gordon Brown sleeping


Obama Alter Ego


Ghosts At The Cemetery

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 01:01 AM PDT

Last weekend we celebrated Halloween, so we decided to tell you the following story. This summer two photographers visited the city of Shargorod, where three cemeteries are situated – the orthodox, the catholic and the Judaic one. Of course they felt uncomfortable at the cemeteries, but didn't notice anything strange or abnormal. One night they were taking pictures, and in the morning they skimmed through the photos and this is what was in them.
















Funny Demotivational Posters - Part 12

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 12:43 AM PDT

Dubai and Las Vegas: Then and Now

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 12:39 AM PDT

You'll see comparative pictures of two world's famous cities: Dubai and Las Vegas.It's crazy how time flies and how the two cities aroused from the desert. I love to look at pictures like this.

Dubai in 1990


2003




Now


Las Vegas Strip in 1954


Now


Facts About The Mouth

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 12:29 AM PDT

In addition to it's primary role as the beginings of the degestive system, the human mouth plays a significant role in communication. Another non-digestive function of the mouth it's role in secondary social and/or sexual activity, such as kissing. Butthere are some fascinating facts about our mouths we probably never take the time to think about, so we've compied them for you below:

More Infographics.

Click to Enlarge.


Source: dentalhygienistschools


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SEOmoz PubCon Happy Hour 2010

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 06:54 AM PDT

Posted by jennita

It's November! Which here at the mozPlex means a few things: It's sunny and beautiful in Seattle [wait.. uhm what??], we're all getting ready for Thanksgiving and most importantly... PubCon is next week! As usual we're sending a big crew down to Vegas to speak, learn, network and of course party.

Both Rand and Joanna will be speaking on several panels, plus you'll find Jamie, Aaron, Miranda, Adam and Gillian on-hand as well. You'll know who they are as they'll be wearing a lovely SEOmoz t-shirt. I really urge you to seek them out and say hi. Really, stalk them... they'll all enjoy it! ;-)

Oh right... you don't care about all that now do you? You care about the party info! Ok fine... Here's the goods:

Happy Hour Details

When: Wednesday, November 10th, 6:00 - 7:30pm

Where: Wynn Hotel in the Alsace 2 room

Who: All PubCon attendees!

Why: We'll have some cool giveaways [including 3 Kindles!] and free drinks of course. It's a party for goodness sake, why wouldn't you come?!

Still not convinced? Check out some of the pictures from last years party (you can see them all here).

Kristy Bolsinger, Kate Morris, Matt Cutts at SEOmoz PubCon party 2009
Kristy Bolsinger, Kate Morris and Matt Cutts

Chris Winfield, Shirly Tan, Brent Csutoras, Dana Lookadoo, Tim Ash
Chris Winfield, Shirley Tan, Brent Csutoras, Dana Lookadoo, Tim Ash

So be sure to head on over to the Wynn right after Matt Cutt's Super Session on Wednesday evening. We'll be tweeting reminders and any updates. We look forward to seeing everyone there!

<3 - The mozzers


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Google's Unspoken Failures Are Limiting Your Potential

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 02:15 PM PDT

Posted by Danny Dover

 As people in relationships spend time with each other they start to leverage each others natural strengths to efficiently store information about the world around them. "Honey, what is the name of my Aunt's employer?" "Babe, what do you call that thing that heats bread?" They rely on each other to store information that is mutually beneficial.  Some believe this process is one of the reasons breakups are so hard. “I feel like when s/he left, s/he took a part of me.” It is common to hear statements similar to this because when it comes to memory, it is more true than many may realize.

Sharing Information

While this phenomenon has historically happened between two people offline, it is now happening online between people and technology. How many times have you checked Google for a fact that you once knew? How many times have you Googled for a resource that you have already read? Like it or not, Google is quickly becoming a second brain in much the same way loved ones have done in the past. While this search engine has benefits that humans don’t (ubiquity), it does have some severe limitations that should be examined.

The self declared mission of the people who run Google is to “organize the world’s information...”. While they have done a remarkable job of this online, they have failed to do this offline in the tangible world. To understand these unspoken failures, all you need to do is examine the five major senses humans use to organize the world’s information.

Limitations

 

Sight

“Who is that guy?” “I recognize that place, where was that scene filmed?” “What is the name of that color?” For most people, sight is the primary sense for experiencing the world. While technology does exist for identifying objects within images (facial recognition algorithms, OCR, color detection, etc...) you can’t utilize these tools directly through Google. This may possibly be the biggest limitation of Google. Be it remembering the name of a person after a date or an entire government agency trying to identify a suspect, identifying someone or something by sight is critical for organizing the world’s information.

Smell

Smell is the closest sense tied to memory. Have you ever walked by a stranger and instantly been flooded with memories of a significant other who happened to wear the same perfume or cologne? It can be a jarring experience. Want to identify that scent? Google can’t help you. While the technology exists for detecting smells and there are databases for identifying smells, a method to easily cross reference and identify a smell online is not available.

Hearing

You are watching How I Met Your Mother and you recognize the voice in the opening sequence. Whose voice is that? You hear an obscure tune as a car blaring loud music drives by your home. What is the name of that song? Like the situation with sight, the technology for identifying sounds exists (Shazam, SoundHound, etc...) but it is not available through Google.  While you can search via verticals for text, video and images, you can’t search for sounds. This is almost certainly a legal limitation rather than a technology one. (After all, Google can identify audio clips in YouTube videos.)

Taste

You are traveling in Greece and you order the most interesting looking item on the menu. When it arrives, it looks like nothing you have ever seen. You bite into it and instantly recognize the flavors but can’t remember the name of the meal as it is hidden by an “unique” texture. Again, Google won’t help you (although a napkin might). The same problem happens more frequently with allergies. Want to make sure a meal a friend made for you doesn’t have an ingredient you are allergic to? Some technology can help but Google isn’t one of them.

Touch

BEEP BEEP BEEP! It is 6:00 AM and your alarm clock is screaming. Eyes still closed and crusty, you reach across your bed and use touch to identify the snooze button on your alarm clock. Later that same day, you reach into your bag and navigate its contents by touch to pull out your cell phone. Although more subtlely tied to memory than the other senses, touch can also help you identify objects.

But why would you need to search for something by touch if the object is already at arms length? Good question... unless you are blind. Many blind people use their sense of touch to catalogue the world. Imagine you are not able to see and you find something new and want to know what it is. A friend might be able to help but Google won’t.

And these major limitations are only the beginning:

 

Where are you?

In the United States, the most common text message is “where are you”. While other websites (Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare) have been getting better at answering this question, Google has largely remained stagnant.

Where did I put that?

You are getting ready for work but can’t for the life of you remember where you put your favorite shirt. This type of situation happens daily. Be it car keys, shoes or your little sister, countless man hours have been spent looking for things. When it comes to finding the location of personal items, again Google can’t help.

So Google has some major limitations, why is that a big deal?

These limits are worth writing a blog post about for two reasons; context and awareness.

The great thing about being alive is that everyone is constantly at the forefront of human progress. Right now we are the most evolved we have ever been. And right now, we are even more evolved than when you read that last sentence. It is very likely that while you have read this post, someone, somewhere has invented something that will make your life better moving forward. Google is a great example of that. The limitations I listed above could be fixed with the creation of new features. That is not the point. The point is that while we are currently living in the most technologically advanced time that has ever existed, we still have a long way to go. The Google of today is not the end-all-be-all, it is only a milepost on a much longer stretch of highway.

The second reason I am writing this post is to promote awareness. Whether you like it or not, Google is becoming an important factor in how you experience the world. Just like a person wearing glasses literally sees the world through predefined frames, humans are seeing the Internet through the limits of Google.

Think about that.

If you were a fish living in a fish bowl, would you know the bowl existed? You would certainly know there was an edge to your environment (the glass) but having been enclosed in a bowl throughout your entire existence, you wouldn’t be able to “organize your world’s information” beyond what you could sense. Google is not sensing the world like we do. It can’t see, smell, hear, taste or touch. Yet at the same time, it is largely defining how we experience the Internet. As the Internet becomes an increasingly essential part of our world, the search engine’s limitations become our limitations. These limitations whether noticed or not are limiting your potential to experience the world.


Update 11/4/10 - 9:20AM:

Hey everyone! I want to address some of the comments below. I stick by my argument that Google's limitations are limiting our potential to view the world but judging by the comments, it looks like I didn't explain my word choice well enough.

I hold Google to the standard they set for themselves. The company's mission is to "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." When I refer to limits as failures I am doing so in the context of their self declared mission. Google does amazing things with technology but it has failed to do what it set out to do. In this way, these major limitations are failures of their mission.

Although no one brought this up (yet!), I want to note that this post could have easily been about Microsoft. I chose to single out Google simply because they are the dominate market leader. Sitting at my desk right now, I have three devices that have Google set as the default search engine. In my life at least, Google is almost ubiquitous.

Below grasshopper commented: "But as with any utility - and Google is just that, a utility - it's important to remember to switch it off. "

I like that comment as it illustrates a point I was touching on but didn't fully hit. (Forgive me as I am taking your comment slightly out of context ;-p) Just like a utility, you can't actually turn it off. Like gas in your house, you can "turn if off" but this just restricts your access. It doesn't actually remove the gas from the lines under and around your house. Grasshopper continued "Go for a walk outside, talk with your friends and family face-to-face, etc." This is where the problem of ubiquity comes into play. Odds are you will be going on a walk but taking your Internet-enabled cell phone with you. As the drastic growth of mobile searches shows, even on a walk you are not experiencing the world without Google. (This is not meant to be an attack on your comment grasshopper, rather your word choice got me thinking and I was inspired to make another point ;-p)


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If you have any other related limitations that you think are worth sharing, feel free to post it in the comments. This post is very much a work in progress. As always, feel free to e-mail me if you have any suggestions on how I can make my posts more useful. All of my contact information is available on my profile: Danny Thanks!


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