Category: just for fun

Almost (54% to 70%) famous looking

It’s stuff like this (registration required) that makes the Internet so fascinating to me. Not the wealth of information. Not the variety of voices. Not even the social networking opportunities. But the ability to see how closely I resemble celebrities.

One of my nieces once told me I looked like Eric Estrada. (This, of course, was back in the ’70s, when we both — Eric and I — had dark hair.)

Full disclosure: I posted an earlier photo that, when analyzed, compared me to Donald Rumsfeld. So I tried again, with a happier photo, and got a happier result. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be compared to Philip Seymour Hoffman?

Link via my old blog buddy, Debi.

Friday Five: 23 minutes till lunchtime edition

Contextless links on a Friday morning:

  1. answering emails/ Video chatting on skype/How ridiculous. That’s just one example — my own — of the latest literary rage, Twitterku. That’s hiaku created from found Twitter texts. Via Boing Boing. (Being a non-Twitterer — or non-Twit, as I prefer — I had to go to the Twitter website to get my TwitterKu text.)
  2. No. 11: Doing a Friday Five when your stomach is growling. When is blogging a waste of time? 10 nasty examples.
  3. So many social networks … so little time. Struggling to manage all your social networks? MyLifeBrand may be your savior. The service lets users aggregate all their social networks and navigate between them from one place. TechCrunch reviews the service. It sounds promising.
  4. A Second Life for higher ed is the topic of Karine Joly‘s latest column for University Business. She plans to post interviews she conducted for this column on her blog in a couple of days.
  5. Seven alternatives to Wikipedia. Students of the world, rejoice! No longer do you have to rely solely on Wikipedia for your research papers. Via David Weinberger.

It is now 11:59. Time for lunch.