I came across this verse again in work on my project. I like.

… As a result, all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

[1 Samuel 12:18]

This is incredible technology.

In short, we have tiny barcodes that are legible when the picture is out of focus, exploiting the optical characteristics of most camera lenses. Seriously, the people who came up with this are very clever. Kudos.

But the ‘application scenarios’ they’ve come up with are outrageously lame. ‘Crowd gaming in public spaces‘. Who would do that? It’s like those public billboards that have a stereo jack down the bottom you can plug your headphones into in order to listen to the latest track by some artist. I’ve never seen anyone listening to one, ever.

I love xkcd. This episode, Calculus meets Caruso.

Also, watch this.

Bartik is writing a book. It’s shaping up to be a cracker.

It’s only in draft stage at the moment, with 4 of the 10 chapters written, but this is something that’s going to revolutionise leadership paradigms all over the world: in business, politics, churches, and beyond.

Here’s the rationale for using Moses as a paradigm for effective leadership:

“Moses of course went on to become easily the most significant, prolific prophet and judge in the history of the Bible. Even in these early stages, Moses was headed for greatness.”

As I said, keep your eyes peeled. This will seriously change your life. Or someone else’s.

As a religious sports teacher, apparently. At least primarily.

This is generated from a MIT algorithm, Personas, that looks at the aggregate online identity of a given name. In other words, give it your moniker, and it will categorise everything it can find online about you to come with a profile.

Part of the deal (and the appeal) of the project is that it’s perhaps confusing to work out if you’re you, or someone else with the same name. Sam Freneys are relatively rare online, but outliers who aren’t me do exist (e.g. the Year-1 merit award winner from Bakewell Primary School in Darwin (PDF) — well done, Sam Freney!).

Chris – perhaps this is the solution to your ‘who is the real me’ question?