Saturday, July 01, 2006

Things that crack me up, #5

This is not remotely disability related. It's just a heap o' fun, discovered via Jill at Feministe. A face recognition program tells you what celebrities you look like.

I'm hoping it's just the glasses that threw the program off:

Me. And Chester Bennington, lead singer of Linkin Park.

head and shoulders photo of white woman with dark-framed glasseshead and shoulders photo of white man wearing hat and dark-framed glassesRunner-up matches: Jeff Goldblum. Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer and peace activist. Annette Benning. Rose McGowan. Umm, Wayne Knight, Neuman from Seinfeld. Nana Mouskouri. And Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

When I lose the glasses, it says I look like Meg Ryan and Larry Flint.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I used to worry about the nefarious uses of face recognition. Your post made me feel **much** safer.

To a computer there might be a match, but to a human male who's mostly hetero there's no contest.

The subtlety of how we humans see faces is apparently lost on the program that does the matches. I can see some of the points of ID that the program used. They went heavy on chin, cheekbones and skull shape, but is is distorted by the cap.

It was nice to see what you look like. You look really good.

Skye @ Planet Jinxatron said...

Your glasses are so cute!