I’m sure this will be a feature on cell phones in the not too distant future.
Photosynth is a new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.
Well, not the current president, but the LA Times has this about FDR:
Sixty-three years ago this week, as Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy in World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt led the nation in an extraordinary moment of mass prayer.
“Almighty God,” Roosevelt said as millions of Americans gathered around their radios June 6, 1944, “Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.”
It is not unusual for presidents to mention God, or to encourage Americans to offer up prayers for a cause. But experts on Roosevelt and the role of religion in politics note that the “D-day Prayer” is distinctive. Here was a president asking the public to join him in a prayer of his own composition.
The day after D-day, which set the stage for the liberation of Europe, the New York Times reported that the prayer “had been sent out throughout the country and printed in newspapers so that the millions who listened to the broadcast could recite the words with the president as he spoke.”
According to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y., the White House released the text in the afternoon and Roosevelt delivered the prayer at 10 p.m. Eastern time.
A teenager with a brown belt in karate used a samurai sword to scare off a burglar who was after his PlayStation 3 video game console. Last Friday afternoon, Damian Fernandez and his 15-year-old sister, Deanne Fernandez, were home alone at their northwest Miami-Dade County home while their parents were at work when they heard knocking on the front door. Moments later, two men were prying the front door unlocked, prompting Deanne to hide in her closet. “I was so scared,” she said
As her brother slept in the next room, the burglars ransacked their parents’ room, taking some jewelry before moving on to what they were really after — a PlayStation 3.
According to a police report, one of the burglars kicked in Deanne’s bedroom door. She said she could see his foot through the closet panels.
The burglar found the empty PlayStation 3 box and ran out of the room, but Damian was waiting for him.
“Once I saw him take off running back, I jumped off my (bunk) bed and I grabbed my sword … and I just waited for him,” he said.
Damian said he lunged at him with his samurai sword, striking him in the chest.
“He freaked out,” Damian said.
The burglar ran out of the house with Damian chasing him down the road. When police arrived, a K-9 officer located the burglar hiding behind a neighbor’s palm tree. The second burglar got away.