Using your browser URL history to estimate gender – A widget that compares your browser history to the male/female ratios reported for 10 thousand “top” sites and makes a prediction of your gender. I got 60% female, probably because I just looked at Livejournal and Facebook. [via LMG].
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What it would take to become Batman
Dark Knight Shift: Why Batman Could Exist–But Not for Long: Scientific American – an Interview with a professor who wrote a book about it:
How many of us do you think could become a Batman?
If you found the percentage of billionaires and multiply that by the percentage of people who become Olympic decathletes, you could probably get a close estimate.
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Autochromes – a set on Flickr
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The City in the Sea
From the portfolio of Jesse van Dijk, some pretty sketches of a vertical city in a volcano’s crater inside the sea. Lots of other fantastic landscapes in his gallery.
“Get Smart,” which we thought was a serious series. For our bag, it was not over the top to have a guy who was so cool that he had a phone in his shoe, because the problem was in Iran, they took out the laugh track and the guy spoke in Persian. So we didn’t know it was supposed to be funny. Coming from a background where a dog could have a flashback in the middle of a serious plot and you’re not supposed to laugh, this was not over the top at all. So seeing all this stuff like “Batman,” they were never kitsch enough for us. To parody something to someone who grew up on Hindi movies, it would be like trying to parody professional wrestling.
Interview With THE FALL Director Tarsem at Ain’t It Cool News