Showing a New Face

You might have noticed that we posted a new snapshot on the right, keeping up with changing seasons and adjustments in facial hair. Meanwhile, says the New York Times:

The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents.

The spy agency’s reliance on facial recognition technology has grown significantly over the last four years as the agency has turned to new software to exploit the flood of images included in emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications, the N.S.A. documents reveal. Agency officials believe that technological advances could revolutionize the way that the N.S.A. finds intelligence targets around the world, the documents show. The agency’s ambitions for this highly sensitive ability and the scale of its effort have not previously been disclosed.

We are always happy to make our government's job easier in all its endeavors. NSA, here is the full-size version. As for the Bobcat thing, first thing people ask in Montana when you meet up is, "Are you a Cat or a Griz?"  I know where I live.