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Tom Cruise at YRB, Originally uploaded by rnair. Since the word has apparently now gotten out about Tom Cruise speaking at Yahoo!, I thought I’d share this picture of him visiting our humble research lab in Berkeley. Any similarities to my body is strictly coincidental.

This weekend, I had the surreal experience of attending the launch party–in Beverly Hills–for The Hollywood Dog magazine. A friend of mine knows the editor, so we figured it would be an amusing road trip down to Los Angeles to hit up a party filled with over-accessorized dogs. We were not disappointed. I have a [...]

Sign at the checkout counter in a camera store. (Camera: Nokia 7610 phone) If only it were true…

Friends using a cameraphone to take their pictures at a party. (Camera: Canon EOS 20D, Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens)

How referential can you get? This was taken during the CNM Commons groundbreaking ceremony during the 050505 conference this week at Berkeley. On the right, people taking photos of the ceremony with high-end digital SLRs and telephoto zoom lenses. On the left, my advisor, and PI on our Social Uses of Personal Photography research group, [...]

Taken from the built-in webcam on my laptop while waiting to board the flight back to San Francisco. (Posted in realtime: gotta love improperly secured captive-portal wireless networks.)

Imagine: your dog, cat, or other pet in full military regalia. I make this fantasy a reality.      -Mike Wooldridge, petsinuniform.com My dog as rendered by petsinuniform.com (a guy I know runs the site–Stuart had the honor of being the first terrier.)

Testing automatic posting to weblog from camera phone. Stuart in the car

Even the XML geeks at the CDE are getting political in Berkeley.