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Girls and Guns

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Did you know at the age of 18 in Israel you are placed in a “national guard” like program for two years (boys and girls both)? I didn’t:

The life of an eighteen-year-old girl in Israel is interrupted when she is plucked out of her environment at an age when sexual, educational, and family values are […]

Photos as Building Blocks

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

“What if your photo collection was an entry point into the world, like a wormhole that you could jump through and explore… ”

Sounds like something you’d be interested in? Microsoft thinks so (and after watching the video so do I).
Being able to recreate a scene with a series of photos is nothing new, “photo-stitching” software […]