- “…midtown is basically broken. There’s just not enough space for people.” No argument here. I’m not yet convinced turning Times Square into one big pedestrian mall is the way to go, but I do like not waiting for traffic when crossing Broadway at 35th on my way home at night. [via]
- Elsewhere in the City that Never Admits to Having a Sleep Disorder, 5 Abandoned Stations of the New York Subway System. [via]
- Here are a couple of interesting art projects: photographs by blind photographers [via] and a draw yourself as a teen challenge. [via]
- “Here we illustrate the face mining concept for the TV series Star Trek. Specifically, we applied our state-of-the art algorithms in face detection, face tracking and face recognition to 67 Star Trek episodes over three seasons. This process automatically extracts all visible face tracks, and clusters these into a small number of same-person groupings. Currently, we recognize frontal or near-frontal tracks. In the near future, we will extend our results to non-frontal tracks as well.” Interesting and actually pretty cool. [via]
- And finally, Microsoft wonders why people don’t like them? Have we learned nothing from the Sony rootkit troubles? [via]