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A couple of years ago I made a Chrome Extension that removes everyone's eyes: https://vimeo.com/90351144

🇬🇧 people: let's do a Stupid Hackathon in London. I can probably get the joinef.com offices but the FB folks have candy.

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Hah. Similarly, I made a Firefox extension back in the day that replaced people's faces in photos with this face: http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/borderlands/images/5/59/...

My implementation was pretty hackathon-worthy, too, if I say so myself. The shoop face would be scaled and placed only while on Facebook, using FB's own facial recognition metadata on each page.

Nice! Would you at all be willing to provide the extension? This would make slow days so much better.

Unfortunately I never published it, and the hard drive with it is long gone. It shouldn't be difficult to replicate though, they still put that metadata in the DOM so that they can put the little boxes around faces.

Alright that was actually funny and maybe useful to help detract from serious news. Now if it only had a googly eyes option.

Yep - first thing I thought too - maybe even googly xeyes following the mouse.

Yeah, make it so! (I've actually got myself a ticket for the SF stupid hackathon so I might try making that if nailer doesn't mind)

I built a version with googly eyes last year. Was the most successful "stupid" project I've ever knocked out. http://www.cnet.com/news/googlifier-chrome-extension-adds-go...

Do you know of any extensions that put googly eyes over spiders? I really want this, but ironically I am too squicked out by spiders to go acquire a training set and tweak it myself.

I don't know if you're joking or not, but I'd totally be up for a Stupid Ideas Hackathon in London.

You had the opportunity to turn all of the internet's eyes into googly eyes and you missed it!

This would have been much less creepy.

Absolutely. There must be a whole generation of people in British IT/electronics who just about remember It'll Never Work? off the BBC.

The only thing I remember about that show was that it used People are People by Depeche Mode as the theme tune! Remind me, what was the show about again?

various inventions from the chindogu company to solve 'everyday' problems. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindōgu

Ah yes Chindogu, I remember them! Thanks!

A Stupid Ideas in London sounds great - happy to help out!

can i remote in from manchester? or should we have a north vs south stupid hackathon?

Only last month I was talking to someone about one in Scotland ...

Would be good fun, let me know if you get something moving.

This would be brilliant - count me in!

Happy to help with organising one

Are you on Twitter? I'm @mikemaccana. I've run a bunch of events before, happy to handle web & some of the publicity.

I would love to help out with this. Just followed you on twitter

Count me in!

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