] Handmade Star Trek TOILET SEAT! To BOLDLY GO!

Boldly go where no ARSE has gone before!

] Perceptual user interfaces are the systems that use
] user's motion, such as the motion of the face, to
] control a program. These systems have applications in
] industry for disabled, immersive environments, security,
] video-conferencing etc. For these systems to be
] operational, they have to be able to track human faces
] both robustly and precisely.
]
] Unlike rigid bodies, faces do not have rigid features,
] which makes conventional feature tracking techniques,
] such as used in AR project, unsuitable. NouseTM, which
] stands for "Nose as Mouse" and is pronounced
] ['naus], is the CVG developed concept that yielded a
] solution to this previously unresolved problem. It is
] based on tracking the so-called convex-shape nose
] feature, which is the point on the nose closest to the
] camera. Thus defined nose feature is rotation and scale
] invariant, it is seen at all times regardless of the face
] orientation, and makes it possible to operate with the
] nose as with a mouse or a joystick. A few applications,
] such as NousePaint, multiple-user NousePong and an
] aim-n-shoot BubbleFrenzy game, have been developed to
] show the power of the technology.

I'm going to have to give this a try at home.

Nouse

] Kelley's insightful window on the details of the war
] brought him increasing readership (118,000 page views on
] a recent day) and acclaim, including interviews in the
] The New York Times and on NBC's Nightly News, Newsweek
] Online and National Public Radio.
]
] The only problem: Much of his material was plagiarized --
] lifted word-for-word from a paid news service put out by
] Austin, Texas, commercial intelligence company Stratfor.

Wired News: Noted War Blogger Cops to Copying

What if Fox News reported various famous moments in history. Mildy entertaining, and bi-partisan!

Fark vs. Fox News

] Cape Town - A young hockey player and part-time waitress
] used her hockey stick on a would-be burglar and nearly
] beat him to a pulp on Thursday morning.
]
] Shortly after the attempted robbery, Leigh Fourie, 18,
] said she was terrified when she pounced on the would-be
] burglar. She threatened him, called him names and hit him
] with the hockey stick.
]
] Fourie said she woke up in her parents' home in Strand
] about 09:15. Her mother, Evelyn Fourie, had already gone
] to work in Stellenbosch.
]
] "I was drinking a milkshake in the lounge when I heard
] glass breaking. Someone was trying to break into my
] mother's bedroom next door. I crept to my bedroom, closed
] the door and 'phoned my mother, who told me to go outside
] and call the neighbours."
]
] Fourie said she decided to use her hockey stick instead
] because shouting wasn't going to help. Nobody would have
] heard her above the wind. "I ran down the corridor
] shouting, rushing towards the man who had in the meantime
] entered the lounge. "I waved my hockey stick in the air
] and started hitting him on his head, neck, arms -
] wherever I could land a shot. He tried to get away and
] pulled a knife from his pocket, but I told him he should
] put it away, because the police were outside."
]
] Fourie said the

Girl beats up burglar

] BATTLE CREEK, Mich. -- Bill Post knew that he had a hit
] on his hands when his children kept asking him to bring
] home some more of those fruit scones from work.
]
] It was September 1963 when Post, then the manager of a
] Keebler Food Co. plant in Grand Rapids, was approached by
] Kellogg Co. to help the Battle Creek cereal giant develop
] a breakfast food for the toaster.
]
] When Post took home some early examples of what the two
] companies were jointly developing, he found that his
] children loved fixing and eating the flat, fruit-filled
] pastries.
]
] "I used to bring a lot of stuff home -- samples you'd run
] -- and they'd turn up their noses, they didn't like this
] or that," Post recalls. "But they used to ask me, ãBring
] those fruit scones home.' That's what we called them at
] first, internally. Fruit scones. ãBring some of those
] home, will you, Dad?"'
]
] Pop-Tarts were born.

Long live pop-tarts!

Kellogg's popular, pioneering Pop-Tarts turn 40 this year - 04/05/03

] US Marines found cyanide and mustard agents in high
] concentrations in the Euphrates River near Nassiriya in
] Iraq, television network MSNBC has reported.
]
] The network said a briefing from Marine officials was its
] source for the information.

EUPHRATES 'POISONED'

] A woman lion tamer has run away from a circus in Germany
] with eight lions, two tigers and the circus director's
] son, police said on Friday.
]
] The woman, in her late 40s, is believed to have developed
] a close relationship with the 20-year-old man she was
] training to become a lion tamer, a police spokesman in
] the northern German town of Melle said.

Oh my!

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

] Reminiscent of the Hitler Youth of World War II, Saddam
] Hussein has trained an 8,000-strong army of children to
] face coalition forces in Baghdad.
]
] In a report by the New York Daily News, Peter Singer of
] the Brookings Institution explains the children are
] considered a junior Fedayeen Saddam %u2013 the
] paramilitary forces Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
] has dubbed "death squads" for the atrocities they commit.
]
] The child army is called Ashbal Saddam, or Saddam's Lion
] Cubs, according to the report.

WorldNetDaily: Saddam trains kids to kill

] MSNBC.com tests reveal evidence of the deadly toxins
] ricin and botulinum at a laboratory in a remote mountain
] region of northern Iraq allegedly used as a terrorist
] training camp by Islamic militants with ties to the
] al-Qaida terrorist network. The U.S. Central Intelligence
] Agency is conducting its own tests at the same area, but
] has not yet released the results, according to officials
] in northern Iraq.

Positive test for terror toxins in Iraq