Find your celebrity look-alike

My big timewaster of the day is this site, which will compare an uploaded photo to a database of celebrity pictures and tell you which stars you most resemble. Some of you have probably seen this on Facebook already, but you can use it through the MyHeritage website too.

As the program ignores hair color, race, and even sex, there can be some pretty weird matches. (Any of you think I look like Martin Lawrence?) Using a large, forward-facing head shot eliminates most but not all of the weird matches. The program also seems to get caught up on hairstyles -- it returned almost all men's photos as matches for me if I uploaded a picture where I had short or pulled-back hair.

My most common celebrity matches included Meryl Streep, Janeane Garafolo, Christina Ricci, Jodie Foster, Angelina Jolie (no, really), and, oddly enough, Frankie Munoz of Malcolm in the Middle fame.

Oh yeah, I also kept getting matched with a photo of young Shirley Temple, which just seemed wrong. And by "wrong" I don't mean "inaccurate" so much as "immoral". I'm having disturbing thoughts of some creep in a bar offering to buy me a Shirley Temple because I "look just like her". Then he'd probably follow me outside, hit me over the head, lock me in his basement, and force me to sing "On the Good Ship Lollipop" until Detectives Benson and Stabler burst in and rescue me.

But I digress.

A nice thing about this program is that their celebrity photo database includes non-US stars, as well as famous people who aren't popular entertainers -- there are politicians, authors, and news anchors too.

Blog CPR

So here's a few things that I'm sharing mostly to see if anyone's still reading:

Play a game and help the world

My favorite Friday addiction

What Perez Hilton strives to do, but doesn't quite manage (aka my favorite nasty blogger)

Neil Gaiman on alphabetizing books

While looking at this and that on YouTube, I found this clip of author Neil Gaiman at a convention answering the old "Where do you get your ideas?" question.

The interesting thing to me is that about a minute in he starts talking about alphabetizing his books as a kid, and how by the time he was seven he was agonizing over such issues as whether books by Roger Lancelyn Green should go under "L" or "G".

Sound familiar, anyone? Does it in fact sound EXACTLY LIKE YOUR OWN CHILDHOOD? Because it sure sounds like mine!

This makes me think that either Neil Gaiman has missed his true calling as a manbrarian, or that I should have become a bestselling author adored by 17 year old girls who wear black all the time. (Sound familiar, anyone? Does it in fact sound EXACTLY LIKE YOUR JUNIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL? Because it sure sounds like mine!)

Speaking of librarians and wearing black all the time, I've got another YouTube clip as a sort of lagniappe for this post:

Ninja Librarian!

I heart the internet

Just in case you haven't been following, Perez Hilton has the play by play of the latest Lindsay Lohan scandal here.

The Today Show - Covering the HARD news!

Over heard this quote from Meredith Vieira on the Today Show this morning.

"There's no other way to say it. The long national nightmare is over...Paris Hilton was released from jail this morning."

Thnk G!

Ask...and God may answer

Last night this topic was discussed by those in attendence. And, I was accused of being too professional. Please note that Nelson Mandela will be pleased at the rumor. More SPICE would sure be nice! Maybe they can start the trend of neverending farewell tours!!

how much do I hate the Bush twins? let me count the ways.

Did I already blog about this? I might have. Apologies. It's just that every time I see those stupid, privileged, misbehaving, all-noblesse-and-no-oblige First Twins in the news for their antics or for their "accomplishments," my blood pressure heats up and the words on my computer screen get all blurry and red. So I'm sharing my rage with you, friends. Check out the dumb cover of the stupid book that Jenna Bush "wrote" based on her "work" with UNICEF. And here's the description on Amazon. There's no link to submit a review yet, but when the book comes out this fall, I'm going to write a doozy.

Can we all agree, as new librarians (employed or not), that none of us will waste a collection development dime on this drivel? I'm not talking about censorship--I may even read this piece of crap book just to make myself miserable for an afternoon--I'm just saying that asshole First Twins with trust funds financed by torture, minority subjugation, and environmental annihilation (to name just a few offenses) shouldn't be allowed to exploit the narratives of people victimized by their father and grandfather in order to make a buck (I don't care if she's going to donate the profits; it's blood money) or to improve their reputations. Thanks, yo.

If I don't get a job soon...

I'll seriously consider becoming some coddled celebrity's slave.