Showbits

After seeing the brilliant Kevin Murphy subject himself to the face recognition software of MyHeritage.com, I decided to see which celebrities this online software would consider me to resemble:

For those of you drawing blanks, the above eight mugs belong to Howard Dean, Jude Law, Joe Montana, Julio Iglesias, Cab Calloway, Seann William Scott, Johnny Damon, and Steve Jobs. If you find these results questionable, know that, with a beard, I'm told to be akin to J.K. Rowling, Anna Paquin, Chow Yun-Fat, and Spike Lee. (In real life, I've been told I look like either Beck or Chevy Chase.)

Diverse and spurious choices, to be sure — I do not consider myself to have vaguely African features. Still, I think it's an improvement: the last time I tried this program in 2006, my matches were Vassily Ivanchuk and Ksawery Tartakower, both Russian chess players — not terribly flattering, but at least consistent.

Who do you look like?

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