The Rise of Computer Vision

Computer vision, automatic image analysis applications, panoramic and
3D reconstructions, face recognition...
all this has attracted more and more attention in the press. Its is
always good to remind readers that this area remains largely unsolved,
and that it is very easy to claim something can be done and to talk
about it, but actually get it working is really really hard.

Some recent major news articles (on basic stuff without details)

A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/technology/28google.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/23/0044223&from=rss

Lyrics of the day

Operation Ivy - Healthy Body Sick Mind

Expensive vitamin pills and wheat germ on your windowsill
Your schedule's hectic and you've got no time to kill
Earning money and you're spending it the right way
Just in such a rush you don't know if it's night or day
5:30 get up, run, run, run
Then you work eight hours slaving under the gun
Your little world's based on lies lies lies
Always rushing but you're never ever satisfied
Healthy body, Sick mind (working overtime)
Healthy body, Sick mind (Too hectic too hectic)
Healthy body, Sick mind (why don't you just survive)
Its just a matter of time sick body sick mind
The money you spend on running shoes could feed me for a week
Your plans are laid so well you can't even sleep
Pursuit of happiness got your life locked up under martial law
You got everything to lose so you're paranoid about some fatal flaw
5:30 get up and you run, run, run
Then you work eight hours slaving underneath the gun
Your little world's based on lies lies lies lies lies lies lies
Always rushing but you're never ever satisfied
Healthy body, Sick mind (working overtime)
Healthy body, Sick mind (Too hectic too hectic)
Healthy body, Sick mind (why don't you just survive)
Its just a matter of time Sick body Sick mind

True Happiness

This is a really inspiring video. It is pretty much the way I like to intuitively think about deep things in life, but hearing such a reasonable person speaking about it really made an impact on me. You should really watch the whole thing!