Pasteboard Masks...

from MyHeritage.com. Get one for yourself.



This program was designed so idiots could see what celebrities they looked like (I did try it on myself, and it said I looked like Johny Depp, which despite my affirmation exercises is quite a long way from the truth), but to stop at that is nothing but a failure of imagination. Who knew, for example, that Beckett looked 83% like himself, and 75% like Roland Barthes, while Richard Dawkins looks 59% like Silvio Berlusconi? Kate Bush looks like Natalie Imbruglia, Halle Berry and Sophie Marceau, among others, which seems about right. John Barth looks 62% like Woody Allen, 61% Gregory Peck, and 46% like Bette Davis.
Most delightful of all was the effect that Hunter S. Thompson and Thomas Pynchon had on the machine. With Thompson the system was unable to locate his face, and when I manually pointed it out it was then claimed that he looked like no-one else in history. Pynchon's photo just couldn't be entered at all.