I’m on vacation today, and the rest of the week for Turkey-time. Turkey-time is one of my favorite holidays because it’s like Christmas without the stress of having to buy gifts for everyone. Granted, I probably like Christmas more because of the gifts, but Thanksgiving is like Christmas’s weekend.
Anyhow, to all the Americans: happy Thanksgiving!/p>
Fotes!
Kim worked quite late last night finishing up some work for Freedom. Freedom doesn’t come home early, friends. So, while she’s catching up on some sleep, I’ve been browsing the fun-net.
That’s right, that part of the Internet that’s just fun instead of about computers.
The most exciting thing I’ve found — while listening to old NeoFiles episodes and this morning’s Marketplace — is flickr’s new “Camera Finder”.
In case you didn’t know, when you upload digital photos to flickr, it knows the exact type of camera you took it with. As the database minded out there of you might conclude, flickr could do some interesting graphs and pools of photos with that data: what are the most popular cameras? How about we look at all the pictures taken with a Vivicam 5105s? Oh, and hey if you like those pictures, why not go to a Yahoo! store and buy one?
Indeed. As I said in my bookmarks, I for one, welcome my new retail over lords. In a very small way this is the dream of all the privacy freak-outs realized: they’ll be using my precious data to try to sell shit to me!
On the other hand, it’s fun to browse camera by their shittyness. It’s not quite possible on flickr: I’d like a link for the bottom 20 cameras or “photos taken with the poorest rated camera.” I’m envisioning weird photos from all those digital cameras in blister packs plastered with Bratz stickers.
Happy Thanksgiving