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summer 2007. with all the clicks i’ve been getting for autumn themed wallpapers i thought i might say good bye to summer. kind of a retro looking postcard. for those that were wondering autumn doesn’t officially start until september 21.

Emotion-Recognition Software Knows What Makes You Smile

A computer program that reads human expressions may bring an about-face in marketing.

Dutch researchers using the software recently for a consumer test project seconded what wise men have always known: Sweets are the surest way to make a woman smile.

[ ]…When we smile, frown or grimace, thousands of tiny facial muscles are at work. Emotion-recognition software, or ERS, creates a 3-D face map, pinpointing 12 key trigger areas like eye and mouth corners.

Then a face-tracking algorithm matches the movements to six basic expression patterns, corresponding to anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust and happiness, or a mixture of them.

As much as I love technology and the potential it has for improving the quality of life, but I can see the potential for abuse. Using software like this is bound to suck a little more of the mystery and spontaneity out of our lives, not to mention a little privacy.

early autumn ferns wallpaper for those that just can’t wait.

Dust of Snow
by: Robert Frost

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

Two Of Soldiers Who Penned Times Op-Ed Criticizing War Appear To Have Died