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Occupy Portland

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The Occupy Movement pretty much seems dead in Portland, at least for now. But while it lasted, it was a pretty interesting time.

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Oregon Roadside Attractions, presented in Google Earth

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Which state has the smallest park? The world’s largest wooden airplane? A memorial bathroom? 25 miles of ridable model trains? A volcano within city limits? The only Velvet Painting museum in the world? Giant Shoes, bowling pin, rabbit and a fishing pole? The world’s shortest river? The largest Glockenspiel in the US? And history museums – with two headed animals and the skulls of the last men hanged in the US?

Oregon does!

And even more intriguing, Oregon now officially has the largest ball of twine! It’s not currently on display, but hopefully such an important achievement soon will be.

Find out where they’re all located in my handy Oregen Roadside Attractions Google Earth plugin.

Future versions of this file will be added to my Historic Oregon Google Earth Plugin

Canon Patents Iris Watermarking

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On the surface this doesn’t seem to be that big of a deal. But copyright theft and infringement of photos posted online continues to be a huge issue.

Canon though has decided to patent technology that uses a person’s iris in the eye as the digital watermark. These are to be embedded in the picture itself, probably on a hidden layer, and on the fly when the picture is taken.

This is pretty cool technology, but unfortunately leaves those of us who do not shoot Canon out in the cold, unless they decide to license the technology out.

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